| William Webster - 1740 - 266 σελίδες
...fuppofitions and their errors being plac-d as before, work by this proportion, as a general rule, viz.. As As the difference of the errors, if alike, Or their fum, if unlike, To the difference of the Juppofitions : So either error to a fourth number, which accordingly added to, or fubtracted from the... | |
| William Craighead - 1757 - 584 σελίδες
...preferable to the other ; and it is this ; Ai the difference of the error», if alike, Or (heir fumy if unlike, To the difference of the fuppofitions ¡ So either error to з fourth number, Which accordingly added to, or (ubtraôed From the fuppoßtkm agaiuft it, will Anfwer... | |
| Anthony Birks, John Birks - 1766 - 640 σελίδες
...whether they be greater or lefs, and accordingly mark them with the figns -f- or — j then, RULE, As the difference of the errors, if alike, or their fum, if unlike : is to the difference of the fuppofuions : : fo is either of the errors : to a fourth number ; which... | |
| John Mair - 1772 - 376 σελίδες
...products by the fum of the errors. Or, inftead of the above rule, you may uie the following proportion. As the difference of the errors, if alike, or their fum, if unlike, To the difference of the pofitions ; So either error, To a fourth number. Which fourth number added to, or fubftracted from,... | |
| William Taylor (teacher of the mathematics.) - 1800 - 556 σελίδες
...errors are equal, and have unlike figns, half the fum of the fuppofitions is the number fought. RULE. As the difference of the errors, if alike, or their fum, if unlike, is to tbe difference of the fuppofitions ; fo is either of the errors to a fourth number, which added... | |
| Paul Deighan - 1804 - 504 σελίδες
...great and the other too little, or inftead of the above rule you maynfe the following proportion ; as the difference of the errors if alike, or their fum if unlike : is to the difference of * The rule it founded on this fuppofition ; that the firft error is to the... | |
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