An Intire System of Arithmetic: Or, Arithmetic in All Its Parts. Containing I. Vulgar; II. Decimal; III. Duodecimal; IV. Sexagesimal; V. Political; VI. Logarithmical; VII. Lineal; VIII. Instrumental; IX. Algebraical. With the Arithmetic of Negatives, and Approximation Or Converging Series ... With an Appendix..., Volume 6 |
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Page 129 - If the errors be alike ; that is, both too fmail, or both too great, divide the difference of the produces by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the anfwer.
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Page 65 - Thus if we wish to reduce -ffff to its lowest terms, we could not^o readily do it. In such a case as this there are two ways of doing it ; the first is as follows. RULE FOR REDUCING A FRACTION TO ITS LOWEST TERMS. Divide the terms of the fraction by any number that will divide both, without a remainder. Divide the answer obtained in the same way. Continue thus, till no number can be found that will divide both terms without a remainder.
Page 156 - ... like Cafes there is no more difficulty than in multiplying by a fingle Digit ; for the Number of Cyphers being equal to the places in the Multiplicand, the Product by the 6 falls juft to the left hand of the Product by the 5. But if the Product of the Digit next the left hand by that in Units place, and what is carried be lefs than 10,, then a. Cypher muft be put down between the two Products.