, where it is used in this sense. X An arithmetical theory of numerical functions (loc. cit.) and An outline etc. (loc. cit.). § Collected Papers of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Cambridge, 1927, p. 180. || Bell was led, in 1915, in a purely symbolic manner, to the compounding operation, by working with "generators," without being aware of its arithmetical significance. He called it "ideal addition." The names "ideal multiplication" and "ideal addition" appear to have been chosen under the mistaken impression that the latter distributes the former; see Introduction (4).
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