The National Arithmetic on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods Together with the Cancelling System : Forming a Complete Mercantile Arithmetic |
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... figures . Accordingly we find , that , with the Hebrews and Greeks , the first letter of their respective alphabets was used for 1 , the second for 2 , and so on to the number 10 , - the latter , however , inserting one new character to ...
... figures . Accordingly we find , that , with the Hebrews and Greeks , the first letter of their respective alphabets was used for 1 , the second for 2 , and so on to the number 10 , - the latter , however , inserting one new character to ...
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... figures , digits ( digiti ) or fingers , we preserve a memento of the reason why ten characters and our present decimal scale of numeration were originally adopted to express all numbers , even of the highest order . - There are It is ...
... figures , digits ( digiti ) or fingers , we preserve a memento of the reason why ten characters and our present decimal scale of numeration were originally adopted to express all numbers , even of the highest order . - There are It is ...
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... figures are called significant , as dis- tinguished from the cipher , which is of itself insignificant . Besides this value of the numerical figures , they have another value , dependent on the place which they occupy , when con- nected ...
... figures are called significant , as dis- tinguished from the cipher , which is of itself insignificant . Besides this value of the numerical figures , they have another value , dependent on the place which they occupy , when con- nected ...
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... figure occupying the first place , reckoning from right to left , denotes only its simple value or number of units . But the figure standing in the second place denotes ten times its simple value ; that occupying the third place , a ...
... figure occupying the first place , reckoning from right to left , denotes only its simple value or number of units . But the figure standing in the second place denotes ten times its simple value ; that occupying the third place , a ...
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... figures by this method , they should be separated by commas into divisions of three figures each , as in the annexed table . Each division will be known by a different name . The first three figures , reckon- ing from right to left ...
... figures by this method , they should be separated by commas into divisions of three figures each , as in the annexed table . Each division will be known by a different name . The first three figures , reckon- ing from right to left ...
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Page 203 - Ratio is the relation which one quantity bears to another of the same kind, the comparison being made by considering what multiple, part, or parts, one quantity is of the other.
Page 255 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
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Page 102 - Multiply each numerator into all the denominators except its own, for a new numerator : and all the denominators into each other continually for a common denominator; this written under the several new numerators will give the fractions required.
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Page 247 - 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 finished.