Common School Arithmetic on the Analytic System: With an Appendix of the Metric System of Weights and MeasuresJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1872 - 373 σελίδες |
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... . The ARABIC Notation was introduced into Europe from Arabia in the tenth century . To express numbers , it uses ten different characters , called figures , viz . : 9 ( 6 66 66 66 1 , which represents one OF NUMBERS ARABIC NOTATION.
... . The ARABIC Notation was introduced into Europe from Arabia in the tenth century . To express numbers , it uses ten different characters , called figures , viz . : 9 ( 6 66 66 66 1 , which represents one OF NUMBERS ARABIC NOTATION.
Σελίδα 10
... called cipher or zero . By itself it has no value , but is just as neces sary as any other figure . The other nine figures are called significant figures , because each one signifies or expresses a certain number of units . ART . 10. By ...
... called cipher or zero . By itself it has no value , but is just as neces sary as any other figure . The other nine figures are called significant figures , because each one signifies or expresses a certain number of units . ART . 10. By ...
Σελίδα 11
... called one thousand . ART . 14. The particular position a figure occupies with re- spect to other figures is called its place ; thus , in the number 253 , counting from the right hand , 3 stands in the first place , 5 in the second ...
... called one thousand . ART . 14. The particular position a figure occupies with re- spect to other figures is called its place ; thus , in the number 253 , counting from the right hand , 3 stands in the first place , 5 in the second ...
Σελίδα 12
... called units , the figure in the second place is called tens , and in the third place hundreds . Thus , 253 would express 2 hundreds 5 tens and 3 units . ART . 15. In Art . 13 the pupil was shown how to write hundreds . If we wish to ...
... called units , the figure in the second place is called tens , and in the third place hundreds . Thus , 253 would express 2 hundreds 5 tens and 3 units . ART . 15. In Art . 13 the pupil was shown how to write hundreds . If we wish to ...
Σελίδα 13
... called ONE hundred thousand . Proceeding in the same way , they would finally reach TEN hundred thousand , which is called a MILLION . ART . 18. After counting to MILLIONS , as just explained , men would count ONE million , Two millions ...
... called ONE hundred thousand . Proceeding in the same way , they would finally reach TEN hundred thousand , which is called a MILLION . ART . 18. After counting to MILLIONS , as just explained , men would count ONE million , Two millions ...
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15 cents 2far 3far acres amount Analysis annex apiece apples bales barrel bushels called cask cassimere centimes cents per pound ciphers column common difference common fraction compound quantity contained cost cube cubic decimal decimetres discount Divide the product dividend dollars drams equal farthings feet figure following RULE fourth gallons gentleman grocer hectometres Hence hogshead hundred hundredths improper fraction inches interest least common multiple longitude Madeira wine merchant bought metres miles mills minuend months multiplicand Multiply myriametre number of terms OPERATION oranges ounces payment pecks pence pennyweights piece pints pound sterling premium prime factors prime number principal quarts quotient rate per cent ratio received Reduce remainder rods sacks sell share sheep shillings simple fraction sold square root subtract tens tenths third thousand thousandths trial divisor units weighing whole number worth write yards
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Σελίδα 371 - Words, Facts, and Phrases : A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters. By ELIEZER EDWARDS.
Σελίδα 174 - Time 60 seconds (sec.) = 1 minute (min.) 60 minutes = 1 hour (hr.) 24 hours = 1 day (da.) 7 days = 1 week (wk.) 365 days = 1 common year (yr.) 366 days = 1 leap year 12 months (mo.) = 1 year 10 years = 1 decade 10 decades or \ , , , „ , 1=1 century (cen. or U.) 100 years / J v ' Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, To which we twenty-eight assign, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Σελίδα 245 - If the payment be less than the Interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal ; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due...
Σελίδα 173 - DRY MEASURE 2 pints (pt.) = 1 quart (qt.) 8 quarts =1 peck (pk.) 4 pecks = 1 bushel (bu...
Σελίδα 153 - Farthings (qr. or far.) make 1 Penny, d. 12 Pence " 1 Shilling, s. 20 Shillings
Σελίδα 178 - COUNTING. 12 units or things make 1 dozen. 12 dozen " 1 gross. 12 gross " 1 great gross. 20 units
Σελίδα 245 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal, but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments taken together exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal, and interest is to be computed on the balance as aforesaid.
Σελίδα 144 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Σελίδα 169 - A pile of wood 8 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 4 feet high, contains 1 cord; and a cord foot is 1 foot in length of such a pile.
Σελίδα 95 - To REDUCE A FRACTION TO ITS LOWEST TERMS. A fraction is in its lowest terms when no number greater than 1 will exactly divide both numerator and denominator. I. Reduce ^ to its lowest terms.