RECIPROCAL

RECIPROCAL, in mathematics, is applied to quantities.

reciprocal ties which multiplied together produce unity. Thus
Recluse. $\backslash frac\{1\}\{x\}$ and $x$, $y$ and $\backslash frac\{1\}\{y\}$, are reciprocal quantities. Likewise
$\backslash frac\{1\}\{x\}$ is said to be the reciprocal of $x$, which is again the re-
ciprocal of $\backslash frac\{1\}\{x\}$.