 | Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...Ans. -1972602, &c CASE III. 2"i> find the decimal of any number of shilling!, pence and farthings, by inspection. RULE.* Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first decimal figure, and let the farthings in the given pence and * The invention of the rule is as follows : as shillings... | |
 | Michael Walsh - Arithmetic - 1807 - 290 pages
...hogshead. Aus. ,234-1 + CASE III. To find the decimal of any number of shillings, pence and farthings, by inspection. RULE. Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first de«¡mal figure, and let the farthings, in the given pence anil faithings, possess •thç second... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1810 - 190 pages
...being more than 12, but not exceeding 36,) is '024 £., and the whole is '874 £.. the Ans. Wherefore, to reduce shillings, pence and farthings to the decimal • of a pound by inspection, — Call every two shillings one tenth of a pound ; every odd shilling, fine hundredths ; and the number... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1815 - 250 pages
...decimal of any number of shillings, pence and farthings, (to three places) by IN8PECTION. RULE. 1 . Write half the greatest even number of shillings For the first decimal figure. 2. Let the farthings in the given pence and farthings possess the second and third places ; observing... | |
 | Michael Walsh - Arithmetic - 1816 - 288 pages
...hogshead. Ans. ,2341 -f CASE ill. To find the decimal of any mmkr nf shilling», pence and farthinfff, b¡ inspection. RULE. Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first decimal figure, and let the farthings, in the given pence and farthings, possess the second an. I third placea ; observing... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1818 - 264 pages
...CASE IV. To find the decimal of any number of shillings, pence, andfartnings, by inspection. RULE. 1. Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first decimal figure. 2. Let the farthings in the given pence and farthings, possess the second and third places ; observing... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Arithmetic - 1822 - 562 pages
...CASE III. To fid the decimal of any number of shilling!, pence and farthings, by inspection. RULE.! I. Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first decimal figure. * The answers to this question arc the same as the decimal parts of a foot. f The invention of the... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1825 - 248 pages
...the decimal of any number of shillings, pence and farthings, (to three places) by INSPECTION. RULE 1. Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first decimal figure. 2. Let the farthings in the given pence and farthings possess the second and third places ; observing... | |
 | Nicolas Pike, Dudley Leavitt - Arithmetic - 1826 - 222 pages
...III. To find the decimal of any number of shillings, pence, and farthings, by inspection. RULE. 1. Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first decimal figure. 2. Let the farthings in the given pence and farthings, possess the second and third places ; observing... | |
 | Michael Walsh - Arithmetic - 1828 - 318 pages
...hogshead. Ans. ,2341 + ß* CASE III. To ßnd the decimal of any number of shillingi, pence, and farthings, by inspection. RULE. Write half the greatest even number of shillings for the first decimal figure, and let the farthings, in the given pence and farthing«, poséese the second and third places; observing... | |
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... second and third places ; observing to increase the second place by 5, if the shillings be odd, and the third place by 1, when the farthings exceed 12, and by 2 when they exceed 37. 
