The Child's Arithmetic: Being an Easy and Cheap Introduction to Daboll's, Pike's, White's, and Other Arithmetics; Designed to Render Both Teaching and Learning at Once Simple and Interesting ...

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S.G. Goodrich, 1818 - Arithmetic - 69 pages
 

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Page 38 - Measure. 4 nails (no.) make 1 quarter of a yard, qr. 4 quarters, 1 yard, yd. 3 quarters, 1 Ell Flemish, E. FL 5 quarters, 1 Ell English, EE 6 quarters, 1 Ell French, E. Fr.
Page 23 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 39 - Square Measure 144 square inches = 1 square, foot 9 square feet = 1...
Page 39 - Measure. 1728 solid inches make 1 solid foot. 40 feet of round timber, or ) , . , , 50 feet of hewn timber, \ l tun or load...
Page 39 - I 91uare rod' 40 square rods, 1 square rood. 4 square roods, 1 square acre, 640 square acres, . 1 square mile. 10. Solid, or Cubic Measure. 1728 solid inches make 1 solid foot.
Page 18 - Addition when the same quantity is required to be added a given number of times. There are three parts in Multiplication, viz. The sum to be multiplied is called the Multiplicand. The sum by which you multiply is called the Multiplier. The result of the operation is called the Product. The Multiplicand and Multiplier are likewise called both tngether/ocfors, or that by which the operation is performed, (Jose 1.
Page 26 - Cut off as many figures on the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divisor.
Page 53 - Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another of the same kind. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend is called the quotient.
Page 39 - Time. 60 seconds (S.) make 1 minute, marked M. 60 minutes, 1 hour, h. 24 hours, 1 day, d. 7 days, . 1 week, w. 4 weeks, 1 month, mo. 13 months, 1 day and 6 hours, 1 Julian year, yr. Thirty days hath September, April, June and November ; February twenty-eight alone, all the rest have thirtyone.

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