 | Michael Walsh - Arithmetic - 1801 - 268 pages
...21. 197 feet clear boards 2 per foot 3 94 ' f DIVISION OF DECIMALS. RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off...decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed thofe of the divilbr. If the places of the quotient are not fo many as the rule requires, fupply the... | |
 | Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...in both the divisor and quotient ; therefore point off for decimals in the quotient so many figures, as the decimal places, in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 2. If the figures in the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Arithmetic - 1802 - 350 pages
...dividend, therefore divide as in whole numbers, and, from the right hand of the quotient, point off fo many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed thofe in the divifor. 2. íf the places of the quotient be not fo many as the rule requires, fupply... | |
 | David Steel - 1805 - 392 pages
...DECIMALS. RULE. Divide as in whole numbers; then cut off, as before, as many places from the quotient, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If there is a deficiency of figures in the dividend, add cyphers. EXAMPLE. Divide 161.57 by 21.573. 2... | |
 | James Thompson - Arithmetic - 1808 - 176 pages
...DECIMALS. AULE — Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient, point ofFas many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If there should be a remainder, or more decimal places in the divisor than the dividend, ciphers may be... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Algebra - 1808 - 470 pages
...dividend, therefore divide as in whole numbers, and, from the right hand of the quotient, point off so many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 2. If the places of the quotient be not so many as the rule requires, supply the defeft by prefixing... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Arithmetic - 1809 - 312 pages
...dividend ; therefore, divide as in whole humbsrs, and, from the right hand of the quotient point off Co many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed thofe in the divifor. 2. If the places of the quotient be not fo many as the rule requires, fupply... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1810 - 190 pages
...to establish the following RULE. In the division of decimal fractions, divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off' as many figure• for decimals as the decimal figures in the dividend exceed those in the divisor, and \f there... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1811 - 210 pages
...DIVISION OF DECIMALS. < "i « RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right handof the iiuotk-iH point off as many places for decimals as the decimal...dividend exceed those in the divisor. *-^ If the places of the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing ciphers. If at... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...decimals in the dividend, than there are in the divisor, point off as many figures in the quotient for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor ; the want of places in the quotient being supplied by prefixing ciphers. But if there be more decimal... | |
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RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 
