A Complete Arithmetic: Uniting Mental and Written Exercises in a Natural System of Instruction

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Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1870 - Arithmetic - 304 pages
 

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Page 27 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 181 - 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.
Page 258 - The cube of a number is equal to the cube of the tens, plus three times the product of the square of the tens by the units, plus three times the product of the tens by the square of the units, plus the cube of the units.
Page 258 - The greatest cube in 262 is 216, the cube root of which is 6 ; hence, 6 is the tens' term of the root. How is the units' term to be found ? The cube of a number, composed of tens and units, is equal to the cube of the tens...
Page 85 - Remove the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier.
Page 253 - The square of a number composed of tens and units is equal to the square of the tens, plus twice the product of the tens by the units, plus the square of the units. tens?
Page 102 - PERIPHERY of a circle is its entire bounding line ; or it is a curved line, all points of which are equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 39 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor...
Page 88 - Divide as in the division of integers, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the number of decimal places in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor.
Page 77 - The denominator of a decimal fraction is 1 with as many ciphers annexed as the numerator has places.

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