[315 
316] 
77 
ig out, this gives 
f) — d 2 b-c 2 = 0 ; 
= 0, 
tioned equation, 
c 
-be’ 
■ Sab 
4 + ab ’ 
foregoing values of 
shows that the locus 
! points where these 
> is, it touches the 
-z = 0), and besides 
ley are respectively 
316. 
NOTE ON THE SOLUTION OF AN EQUATION OF THE FIFTH 
ORDER. 
[From the Philosophical Magazine, vol. xxm. (1862), pp. 195, 196.] 
This Note was in answer to Mr Jerrard’s paper “ Remarks on Mr Cayley’s Note,” Phil. Mag. vol. xxi. 
pp. 348—350, referring to the foregoing paper 310.