 | Robert Hamilton - Business mathematics - 1777 - 740 pages
...performing the operation at large, and comparing the flx-ps. To divide by 10, ico, 1000, or the like. Cut off as many figures on the right hand of the dividend as there arc cyphers in the divifor. The figures which remain on the left hand compofe the quotient, and the... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 474 pages
...performing the operation at large, and comparing the Reps. To divide by IO, 100, 1000, or the like. Cut off as many figures on the right hand of the dividend rr. there are cyphers in the divifor. The figures which remain on the left hand compofe the quotient,... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 502 pages
...cyphers on the right hand thereof the divjfion is performed at once, by cutting off as many figures from the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divifor '. the remainder of the dividend is the quotient See the following examples :— X * I2,o)2794,3(... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1807 - 248 pages
...Kent. 22721. III. И7гел íAe divisor is 10,100, 1000, or \, nvith afiy number of cy/ihers annexed, cut off as many figures on the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divisor ; the figures whicK remain of the dividend compose the quotient, those cut off, the remainder. .' .... | |
 | James Noyes - Arithmetic - 1808 - 168 pages
...3. 4. 416 100)49006 p3( 123 |O)9876 J5( To divide by 10, 100, 1OOO, &c. cut off so many figures at the right hand of the dividend, as there are' cyphers in the divisor ; then the figures- at the left hand will be the quotient^ and the others the reitaa;nder. Quot. Rem.... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...602400 6024,00) 542345,64 (90$$& 54216 ...18564 To divide by 10, 100, 1000, &c. Cut off as many fiinires on the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divisor. The figures which remain on the left hand compose the quotient, and those cut off compose the remainder.... | |
 | Jonathan Grout - Arithmetic - 1809 - 136 pages
...Quo. ?.; jtj-~:4;o Rent. 40I9 When the divifor is i0, t bo, i000, &c. Cut off as many figures from the right hand of the dividend, as there are cyphers in the divifor, and the work is done ; thofe figures on the left hand will be the quotient, and thofe on the... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1812 - 226 pages
...33307. Äc». 2272l. 3. When the Jlvifor is 10, 100, 1000, or 1, with any number of cyphers annexed, cut off as many figures on the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divifor ; the figures which remain of the dividend compoie the quotient ; thofe cut off, the remainder.... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1815 - 250 pages
...1575360 by 144. Jlns. 10940 2. To divide by 10, 100,. 1000, &c. RULE. Cut off as many figures from the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divisor, and these figures so cut off are the remainder ; and the other figures of the dividend are the quotient.... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1818 - 246 pages
...Divide 1575360 by 144. .3ns. 10940 2. To divide by 10, 100, 1000, &c. RULE. Cut off as many figures from the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divisor, and these figures so cut off are the remainder ; and the other figures of the dividend are the quotient.... | |
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Cut off as many figures on the right hand of the dividend as there are cyphers in the divisor. 
