 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1812 - 274 σελίδες
...128.678 128.678 38.24 42.83 514712 38603 257359 10294 1029424 257 386034 8I 4020.64073 > 4920.5 RULE. (1) Divide, as in whole numbers, and cut off as many figures...places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor. (2) If there be not figures enough in the quotient, the deficieney must be iupplied by prefixing eyphers?... | |
 | John Lyman Newell - 1822 - 222 σελίδες
...counted together, must be equal to those in the dividend ; ie point off as many places for decimals in the quotient, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. Q. When the decimals in the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, how do you... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - 1826 - 176 σελίδες
...DIVISION OF DECIMALS. RULE.! — Divide as in whole numbers, and point oft' so many plates for decimals in the quotient as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If there are not so many figures in the quotient as the number of decimals required,... | |
 | Seth Davis - 1830 - 206 σελίδες
...by ,75. Product 13,2. DIVISION OF DECIMALS. Rule. 1. POINT off as many figures on the right hand of the 'quotient, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor. 2. If the places of the quotient be not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1837 - 266 σελίδες
...DECIMALS. RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and point off so many places in the quotient for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor ; or, so many that QUESTIONS. What is the rule for tbe multiplication of decimals = Rule for the division... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - 1838 - 804 σελίδες
...is performed in the same manner as in whole numbers j observing to point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor : — But if there be not as many figures in the quotient as there are in that excess,... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1838 - 346 σελίδες
...as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor. If the places of the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing... | |
 | W. F. Walker - 1841 - 246 σελίδες
...in the quotient as the decimals in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. V. If there are not so many figures in the quotient as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the devisor, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. VI. Annex a cipher or ciphers to the remainder... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1841 - 324 σελίδες
...quotient and divisor, taken together, shall equal the decimal places in the dividend ; or, so many as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor. If there are not so many, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. NOTE. The above rule may he illustrated... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - 1841 - 274 σελίδες
...Divide as in whole numbers; and point off as many places from the right of the quotient, for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor. If there are not so manyjlgures in the quotient as this excess, supply the deficiency by prefacing... | |
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Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 
