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Origin of notation “R with a stroke on the leg” for the square-root (℞)
The following text from Ars magna (1545) by Girolamo Cardano is known as the inception of complex numbers: "imaginaberis ℞ m 15" (You will imagine the square root of minus 15):
The "R&...
