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Although Diophantus made important advances in symbolism, he still lacked the necessary notation to express more general methods.
Some of the limitations of Diophantus ' notation are that he only had notation for one unknown and, when problems involved more than a single unknown, Diophantus was reduced to expressing " first unknown ", " second unknown ", etc.
He also lacked a symbol for a general number n. Where we would write, Diophantus has to resort to constructions like: ... a sixfold number increased by twelve, which is divided by the difference by which the square of the number exceeds three.
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