Arithmetic for SchoolsMacmillan and Company, 1895 - 329 σελίδες |
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100 Dollars Avoir bank bought breadth carpet cents common fraction cube root cubic date I promise decimal point demand note denotes digits discount Divide dividend divisible divisor draft equal Express in words feet Find the cost Find the H.C.F. Find the value five four geometrical progression given number Hence hundred hundredths improper fraction inches income integral interest invested length lowest terms marked price measure method Minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply naughts numerator and denominator obtained Oral Exercises paid payable payment pound proceeds profit promise to pay quantity quotient ratio rectangle rectangular Reduce remainder Roman numerals shares Simplify sold square root Subtract tenths thousand Troy weight units Value received weight whole number wide Written Exercises yards
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Σελίδα 136 - January 31, February 28, March 31, April 30, May 31, June 30, July 31, August 31, September 30, October 31, November 30, December 31.
Σελίδα 94 - Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another number.
Σελίδα 327 - NJ The Algebras by Messrs. Hall and Knight have been introduced in many Colleges and Schools, from among which may be mentioned : Brown University.
Σελίδα 269 - United States Rule. — Find the amount of the principal to a time when a payment, or the sum of two or more payments, equals or exceeds the interest due, and from the amount subtract such payment or payments.
Σελίδα 329 - OF THE POINT, RAY, AND CIRCLE. By WILLIAM B. SMITH, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics in the Tulane University of New Orleans, La. Cloth. $1.1O. "To the many of my fellow-teachers in America who have questioned me in regard to the Non-Euclidean Geometry, I would now wish to say publicly that Dr. Smith's conception of that profound advance in pure science is entirely sound. . . . Dr. Smith has given us a book of which our country can be proud. I think it the duty of every teacher of geometry to examine...
Σελίδα 27 - To multiply a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier ; and if there be not places enough in the number, annex ciphers.
Σελίδα 40 - When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers.
Σελίδα 206 - Four quantities are in proportion when the ratio of the first to the second is equal to the ratio of the third to the fourth.
Σελίδα 329 - I cannot see any cogent reason for not introducing the methods of Modern Geometry in text-books intended for first years of a college course. How useful and instructive these methods are, is clearly brought to view in Dr. Smith's admirable treatise. This treatise is in the right direction, and is one step in advancing a doctrine which is destined to reconstruct in great measure the whole edifice of Geometry. I shall make provision for it in the advanced class in this school next term.