 | Edward Olney - 1882 - 358 sider
...quantities. INVOLUTION. 181. Prob. 1. — To raise a number to any required power. RULE. — MULTIPLY THE NUMBER BY ITSELF AS MANY TIMES, LESS ONE, AS THERE ARE UNITS IN THE DEGREE OP THE POWEB. since an EVEN number of negative factors gives a POSITIVE product, and an ODD... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - 1883 - 368 sider
...multiplier are Factors of the product. NOTE. — The product may be obtained by adding the multiplicand to itself as many times less one as there are units in the multiplier, and hence Multiplication is a short method of finding the sum of several equal numbers.... | |
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... by itself as many times less one as there are units in the exponent of this power. 
