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... fall in a column straight below each other ; and observe to in- crease the first figure in every line with what would arise from the figures omit- ted ; thus , add 1 for every result from 5 to 14 , 2 from 15 to 24 , 3 from 25 to 34 , 4 ...
... fall in a column straight below each other ; and observe to in- crease the first figure in every line with what would arise from the figures omit- ted ; thus , add 1 for every result from 5 to 14 , 2 from 15 to 24 , 3 from 25 to 34 , 4 ...
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... fall on the same days of the month as before . To find the Golden Number , or Lunar Cycle . RULE . - Add one to the given year ; divide the sum by 19 , and the remainder is the golden number . NOTE . If 0 remain , it will be 19 ...
... fall on the same days of the month as before . To find the Golden Number , or Lunar Cycle . RULE . - Add one to the given year ; divide the sum by 19 , and the remainder is the golden number . NOTE . If 0 remain , it will be 19 ...
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... falls in any year from 1776 to 1875 . EXAMPLE . The great fire occurred in New - York on the 16th December , 1835 ; what was the day of the week ? Against 1835 we find Sunday , and at top , under December , we find that the 13th was ...
... falls in any year from 1776 to 1875 . EXAMPLE . The great fire occurred in New - York on the 16th December , 1835 ; what was the day of the week ? Against 1835 we find Sunday , and at top , under December , we find that the 13th was ...
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... falling upon it . An Acute Angle is less than a right angle . An Obtuse Angle is greater than a right angle . A Triangle is a figure of three sides . An Equilateral Triangle has all its sides equal . An Isosceles Triangle has two of its ...
... falling upon it . An Acute Angle is less than a right angle . An Obtuse Angle is greater than a right angle . A Triangle is a figure of three sides . An Equilateral Triangle has all its sides equal . An Isosceles Triangle has two of its ...
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... fall from its vertex to the opposite side , called the base . The Measure of an angle is an arc of a circle contained between the two lines that form the angle , and is estimated by the number of degrees in the arc . A Prismoid has its ...
... fall from its vertex to the opposite side , called the base . The Measure of an angle is an arc of a circle contained between the two lines that form the angle , and is estimated by the number of degrees in the arc . A Prismoid has its ...
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Page 24 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. RULE. — Multiply the whole number by the denominator of...
Page 81 - Take the length of the keel within board (so much as she treads on the ground) and the breadth within board by the midship beam, from plank to plank, and half the breadth for the depth, then multiply the length by the breadth, and that product by the depth, and divide the whole by 94; the quotient will give the true contents of the tonnage.
Page 32 - ... 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 56 - As the conjugate diameter is to the transverse, so is the square root of the difference of the squares of the ordinate and...
Page 204 - ... above the upper deck"; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and then deduct from the...
Page 63 - From the square of the diameter subtract the square of the chord, and extract the square root of the remainder. Subtract this root from the diameter, and half the remainder will give the versed sine of half the arc.
Page 37 - If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.
Page 190 - Secondly, on the supposition that the earth performs an annual revolution around the sun, it is embraced along with the planets, in Kepler's law, that the squares of the times are as the cubes of the distances ; otherwise, it forms an exception, and the only known exception, to this law.
Page 39 - Multiply each payment by its term of credit, and divide the sum of the products by the sum of the payments ; the quotient will be the average term of credit.
Page 1 - Pocket-book, containing United States and Foreign Weights and Measures; Tables of Areas and Circumferences of Circles, Circular Segments, and Zones of a Circle; Squares and Cubes, Square and Cube Roots; Lengths of Circular and Semi-elliptic Arcs ; and Rules of Arithmetic. Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids; the Mechanical...