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Abulpharagius, Dynast. p. 81, 222. Bibliot. Arab. Hisp. tom. i. p. 370, 371.
In quem (says the primate of the Jacobites) si immiserit selector, oceanum hoc in genere (algebrae) inveniet.
The time of Diophantus of Alexandria is unknown; but his six books are still extant, and have been illustrated by the Greek Planudes and the Frenchman Meziriac, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. iv. p. 12 - 15.)
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