 | William Gordon (of the Academy, Glasgow.) - Bookkeeping - 1770 - 494 pages
...denominator, the fraction is called proper, and represents fomething lefs than the integer, as $, i, ^ (fe. If the numerator is equal to, or greater than the denominator, the fraction is called improper, and reprefents fomething equal to, or greater than the integer, as £ = r, * =ij,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 112 pages
...fourths and 1 fourth are 4 fourths, and 3 fourths make 7 fourths. Jlns. | of a dollar. . Nite.—When the numerator is equal to or greater than the denominator, the fraction is called an improper fraction. Thus, ~ is an improper fraction, and is equal to 1}. So 3. is an improper... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1849 - 336 pages
...names 1 Give the definition of each. ^ NOTE. — A fraction, strictly speaking, is less than a unit; hence, if the numerator is equal to, or greater than, the denominator, it expresses a unit or more than a unit, and is therefore called an improper fraction. A mixed number... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...names ? Give the definition of each. NOTE. — A fraction, strictly speaking, is less than a unit ; hence, if the numerator is equal to, or greater than, the denominator, it expresses a unit or more than a unit, and is therefore called an improper fraction. A mixed number... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1854 - 342 pages
...names ? Give the definition of each. NOTE. — A fraction, strictly speaking, is less than a unit ; hence, if the numerator is equal to, or greater than, the denominator, it expresses a unit or more than a unit, and is therefore called an improper fraction. A mixed number... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 336 pages
...than, the denominator ; as, f , §. NOTE. — A fraction, strictly speaking, is less than a unit ; hence, if the numerator is equal to, or greater than, the denominator, it expresses a unit or more than a unit, and is therefore called an improper fraction. A mixed number... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1863 - 130 pages
...fourths and 1 fourth are 4 fourths, and 3 fourths make 7 fourths. Ans. \ of a dollar. Note. — When the numerator is equal to, or greater than the denominator, the fraction is called an improper fraction. Thus f is an improper fraction, and is equal to 1^- So ^ is an improper... | |
 | Richard Dunkley Beasley - 1867 - 226 pages
...than the denominator, the fraction is less than unity, and is called a proper fraction, as \. When the numerator is equal to, or greater than the denominator, the fraction is equal to or greater than unity, and is called an improper fraction, as | and 3. A whole number and... | |
 | Howard Candler - 1868 - 132 pages
...however in arithmetic we also use the word fraction in a somewhat different sense, and in such a case the numerator is equal to or greater than the denominator, the fraction as above defined is called a proper fraction. If however we allow ourselves to make use of a fraction... | |
 | Charles Smith - Arithmetic - 1895 - 368 pages
...When the numerator is less than the denominator, the fraction is called a Proper Fraction ; and when the numerator is equal to or greater than the denominator, the fraction is called an Improper Fraction. A number made up of an integer and a fraction is called a Mixed Number.... | |
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NOTE. — A fraction, strictly speaking, is less than a unit ; hence, if the numerator is equal to, or greater than, the denominator, it expresses a unit or more than a unit, and is therefore called an improper fraction. A mixed number is a whole number... 
