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Definition of Continuants
1. continuant [n] - See also: continuant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Continuants
Literary usage of Continuants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra by George Salmon (1885)
"... determinant is seen to be a (b, c, d, «) + (c, d, e). In this way we can easily
form the series of values of continuants of two, three, &c. rows, viz. ..."
2. Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1889)
"... CF IN TERMS OF continuants If in this last equation we put r = n, and remember
that ste K(« + 1, n) = K( ) = 1, we get l, n) _ l>, ..."
3. Annual Report by Cincinnati (Ohio), Cincinnati Public Schools, Cincinnati (Ohio). Board of Education, Board of Education (1833)
"This effected, we arc hurried into what is styled the "final breathing," and then
pass on to the class of continuants. Here we are taught the following neat ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Determinants: A Text-book for Colleges by Paul Henry Hanus (1903)
"For an illustration we expand the following determinant : a—h+d—e b—g+c—fb — g
+ c—/ a — h + d—e b—y — c+fa — h—d+e continuants. 136. ..."
5. A treatise on the theory of determinants: With Graduated Sets of Exercises by Thomas Muir (1882)
"... will now be referred to, several of them under the specific designations which
it has been found convenient to give them. continuants. ..."
6. Your Personality and Your Speaking Voice: How to Develop Them by Clare Tree Major (1921)
"... CHAPTER V METHOD OF SOUNDING continuants WHEN the exercises of the preceding
chapters have been thoroughly mastered and demonstrated, which means that ..."
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