Arithmetic: In which the Principles of Operating by Numbers are Analytically Explained and Synthetically Applied : Illustrated by Copious Examples

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J.W. Prentiss & Company, 1848 - 306 sider
 

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Side 146 - Thirty days hath September, April. June, and November; All the rest have thirty.one, Save February, which alone Hath twenty.eight; and one day more We add to it one year in four.
Side 49 - It shows that the number before it is to be divided by the number after it. Thus...
Side 271 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Side 147 - TABLE. 60 seconds (") - make - 1 minute, - marked - ' 60 minutes - - - - - 1 degree, ----- ° 30 degrees ----- 1 sign, ------ s. 12 signs, or 360 degrees, - 1 circle of the zodiac. Note. Every circle, whether great or small, is divisible into 360 equal parts, called degrees. 71. Reduce 9s. 13° 25
Side 54 - Number ; thus, the number 17£ (apples) in the above example, is a mixed number, being composed of the integers 17 and the fraction...
Side 84 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, — RULE : Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, to the product add the numerator, and write the result over the denominator.
Side 277 - RULE.* — Multiply the sum of the extremes by the number of terms, and half the product will be the answer.
Side 171 - Every circle, whether great or small, is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees. Let the accompanying diagram represent the great circle of the earth, called the equator, divided, as you here see.
Side 32 - Multiplication is the process of taking one of two numbers as many times as there are units in the other.
Side 271 - Subtract the subtrahend from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend, with which proceed as before, and so on, till the whole is completed. NOTE 1 . The same rule must be observed for continuing the operation, and pointing for decimals, as in the square root.

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