The System of Calculating Diameter, Circumference, Area, and Squaring the Circle: Together with Interest and Miscellaneous Tables, and Other InformationJ. Morton, 1881 - 216 σελίδες |
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Acet Acid acres aloës Aqua average avoirdupois Base Perpendicular bushel C. C. Syr called cent circle circumference comp cube cubic centimetres cubic feet cubic foot cubic inches cylinder Decametre decimal Decoct diagonal diameter divide dollars Dose expressed drachm earth equivalent EXAMPLE Example.-Reduce expressed in metric expressed in terms Extr Ferri figure fixed stars fluid ounce gallons gram Gunter's Chain heat Hypothenuse 64 Infus Interest Table iron leap-year length Liqu litre Mars mean distance MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS metre Metric System metric terms minims minutes month multiply Myriametre naked eye nautical miles number of days opii orbit Perpendicular Hypothenuse pints planets Polygon Posological Table-Continued Potass pounds Pulv quantities quotient radius reckoned reduce Rule side Sodii Spir square root statute miles stere sulph terms of apothecaries Tinct togr troy grains troy ounces weights and measures yards
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Σελίδα 57 - GOVERNMENT LAND MEASURE. A township — 36 sections each a mile square. A section — 640 acres. A quarter section, half a mile square — 160 acres. An eighth section, half a mile long, north and south, and a quarter of a mile wide — 80 acres. A sixteenth section, a quarter of a mile square — 40 acres. The sections are all numbered 1 to 36, commencing at the north-east corner.
Σελίδα 13 - Subtract the square number from the left hand period, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. III. Double the root already found for a divisor ; seek how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend...
Σελίδα 13 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Σελίδα 173 - The meter (metre) was to be the ten-millionth part of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator measured on the meridian passing through Paris, France — not one-millionth, as Mr.
Σελίδα 98 - Fellowship is when different stocks are employed for any certain equal time. RULE.* — As the whole stock is to the whole gain or loss, so is each man's particular stock to his particular share of the gain or loss.t PROOF. — Add all the shares together, and the sum will be equal to the gain or loss, when the work is right.
Σελίδα 11 - The side of an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle is equal to the diagonal of a rhombus, whose other diagonal and each of whose sides are equal to the radius. 642. If two circumferences intersect each other, and from either point of intersection a diameter...