Square Root and Cube Root Extraction in 1788

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Description: Recently I acquired a book entitled A Treatise of Arithmetic, in Theory and Practice , written by a John Gough and published in Philadelphia in 1788. It contains material on how to extract the square and cube root, explained in dialogue and poetry. The material runs as follows.
Viggo P. Hansen
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