| Joseph Victor Collins - 1911 - 330 σελίδες
...Multiplication. The definition of multiplication often given is that multiplication is the process of taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. We may picture this process by thinking of a person picking out from a basket containing eggs six at... | |
| Nicomachus (of Gerasa.) - 1926 - 348 σελίδες
...only variation from the Nicomachean material appears to be the definition of multiplication as "taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier." In the eleventh century appeared also treatises on an ancient arithmetical game, rithmomachia.2 The... | |
| 1885 - 288 σελίδες
...of definition is not apparent. It is a laborious way of saying that the product is formed by taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Neither statement tells'anything important about the process, either psychologically or objectively.... | |
| Joseph Ray - 1857 - 340 σελίδες
...CASE II. ART. 152. To multiply a whole number by a fraction. Multiplying by a whole number, is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Multiplying by a fraction, or part of a unit, is taking a part of the multiplicand. Therefore, Multiplying... | |
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