The sum which is supposed to be the root, reduced to its simple determinateness, that is, its true generality, is the binomial; any other increase of the terms is a mere repetition of the same determination and, therefore, something empty.m What matters here is only the qualitative determinateness of the terms which result from the raising to a power of the root taken as sum, a determinateness which lies solely in the alteration which the potentiation is.