occurs in the original (5.), or it might similarly make it wherever
occurs in the first function itself which is the equivalent of (5.). In some cases the former mode might be best, and in others the latter.
Whichever is adopted, it must be understood that the result is to appear arranged in a series following the law originally prescribed for the development of the
th function. This result constitutes the second function; with which we are to proceed exactly as we did with the first function, in order to obtain the third function; and so on,
times, to obtain the
th function. We easily perceive that since every successive function is arranged in a series following the same law, there would (after the first function is obtained) be a cycle, of a cycle, of a cycle, &c. of operations[27], one, two, three, up to