 | James Morton - 1881 - 236 σελίδες
...express some fractions. There are fractions which cannot be expressed exactly by the decimal scale. Many instruments are divided decimally, for when dimensions...nature, that they vary in the same proportion, and are governed by the same rule as whole numbers. The unit's place or figure denotes one, but it increases... | |
 | James Morton - 1887 - 236 σελίδες
...express some fractions. There are fractions which cannot be expressed exactly by the decimal scale. Many instruments are divided decimally, for when dimensions...fractions are of such a nature, that they vary in the same 13 145 proportion, and are governed by the same rule as whole numbers. The unit's place or figure denotes... | |
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I ; -jig- divided into 10,000 parts, 625 ten thousandths = ^. Hence the necessity of the unit being divided into very small parts in order to express some fractions. There are fractions which cannot be expressed exactly by the decimal scale. Many instruments... 