 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1855 - 436 pages
...wbcle nunitw 1 MULTIPLICATION OF FRACTIONS. 2O 9. We have seen that multiplying by a whole nuniber, a taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 82.) On the other hand, If the multiplier is only a part of a unit, it is plain we musi take... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...factors in multiplication is always to be considered as a number. The operation consists in repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. How then can a line, a surface, or a salid, become a multiplier ? To explain this it will be necessary... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1855 - 356 pages
...take Qax'— 2amn + 3by'1 — 4m. Ans. SECTION IV. MULTIPLICATION. (48.) Multiplication is repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. When several quantities are to be multiplied together, the result will be the same in whatever order... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1856 - 280 pages
...15. From a' \-abc-6 take 6±abc-a\ Ans. SECTION IV. MULTIPLICATION. (53.) MULTIPLICATION is repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. CASE I. When both the factors are monomials. If the quantity a is to be repeated five times, we may... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Algebra - 1859 - 422 pages
...multiplication in the last, as well as in the two first. According to this view of the subject ; 85. Multiplying by a WHOLE NUMBER is taking the multiplicand...Multiplying by 2, is taking the multiplicand twice, as a+a. Multiplying by 3, is taking the multiplicand three, times, as a+a+a, &c. Multiplying by a FRACTION... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1859 - 144 pages
...63 is 1 sixteenth of what number ? Multiplying a whole number by a fraction. 81. We have seen that multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand...as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 36.) On the other hand, If the multiplier is only a part of a unit, it is plain we must take... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 440 pages
...is a fraction subtractel from a whole number ? MULTIPLICATION OP FRACTIONS. 209. We have seen that multiplying by a whole number, is taking the multiplicand...as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 82.) On the other hand, If the multiplier is only a part of a unit, it is plain we must take... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1862 - 428 pages
...subtract** from a whole number 1 MULTIPLICATION OF FRACTIONS. 209. We have seen that multiplying by a w/tole number, is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 82.) On the other hand, If the multiplier is only a part of a unit, it is plain we must take... | |
 | Henry G C. Smith - 1863 - 200 pages
...product of the denominators the denominator of the product. In multiplying by an integer we repeat the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier ; in multiplying by a fraction we take that part of the multiplicand which is denoted by the multiplier.... | |
 | Charles Davies - Mathematics - 1867 - 186 pages
...operation under the definition. § 122. In Multiplication, if we define the operation to be, the process of taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, we prove the operation by showing that the result fulfils this condition. § 123. So, in Division,... | |
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We have seen that multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. 
