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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... Common Schools and Academies . Twenty - fifth improved stereotype edition . 360 pages , full bound . COMPLETE KEYS TO THE INTRODUCTION AND NATIONAL ARITHME- TICS , containing Solutions and Explanations , for Teachers only . ( In ...
... Common Schools and Academies . Twenty - fifth improved stereotype edition . 360 pages , full bound . COMPLETE KEYS TO THE INTRODUCTION AND NATIONAL ARITHME- TICS , containing Solutions and Explanations , for Teachers only . ( In ...
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... common device to employ letters to denote what we express by our numeral 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 ...
... common device to employ letters to denote what we express by our numeral 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 ...
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... common and natural cause . The reason for assuming the binary scale probably lay in the use of the two hands , which were em- ployed as counters in computing ; that for employing the quinary , in a similar use of the five fingers on ...
... common and natural cause . The reason for assuming the binary scale probably lay in the use of the two hands , which were em- ployed as counters in computing ; that for employing the quinary , in a similar use of the five fingers on ...
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... common editions of the great geometer , but are found in the edition by Dr. Barrow , the predecessor of Sir Isaac Newton in the mathematical chair at Cambridge . Euclid flourished about 300 B. C. The next writer on Arithmetic mentioned ...
... common editions of the great geometer , but are found in the edition by Dr. Barrow , the predecessor of Sir Isaac Newton in the mathematical chair at Cambridge . Euclid flourished about 300 B. C. The next writer on Arithmetic mentioned ...
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... common purposes , is not always a test of the correctness of an operation . Cases will sometimes occur in which the excesses above named will be equal , when the work is not right . * As the pupil is presumed not to be acquainted with ...
... common purposes , is not always a test of the correctness of an operation . Cases will sometimes occur in which the excesses above named will be equal , when the work is not right . * As the pupil is presumed not to be acquainted with ...
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Page 94 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. — Multiply the whole number by the denominator of...
Page 245 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 240 - ... and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. 3. Place the double of the root already found, on the left hand of the dividend for a divisor. 4. Seek how often the divisor is contained...
Page 178 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; if that be one year or more from the time the interest commenced, add it to the principal, and deduct the payment from the sum total. If there be after payments made, compute the interest on the balance due to the next payment, and then deduct the payment as above; and in like manner from one payment to another, til! all the payments are absorbed ; provided the time between one payment and another be one year or more.
Page 178 - But if any payments be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation, for one year, add it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid, up to the end of the...
Page 126 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 250 - Raise the ratio to a power whose index is equal to the number of terms, from which subtract 1 ; divide the remainder by the ratio, less 1, and the quotient, multiplied by the first term, will be the answer.
Page 297 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 286 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 35 - Cut off the ciphers from the divisor, and the same number of figures from the right of the dividend. Then divide the remaining figures of the dividend by the remaining figures of the divisor.