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Albert Girard accepted square roots of negative numbers so that an equation would have
Aone single root
Broots equal to degree
Cno repeated roots
Donly real roots
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. roots equal to degree
Girard argued that accepting such roots gives as many roots as the degree of the polynomial equation.
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