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" The operation consists in repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. "
An Introduction to Algebra: Being the First Part of a Course of Mathematics ... - Page 265
by Jeremiah Day - 1814 - 303 pages
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A Theoretical and Practical Arithmetic: In which the Principles of that ...

Bézout - Arithmetic - 1825 - 258 pages
...idea which we have given of multiplication, we see that we could perform this operation by writing the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, and afterward performing the addition. For instance, to multiply 7 by 3, we could write 7 + 7 + 7,...
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Practical and Mental Arithmetic: Designed Principally to Accompany Daboll's ...

Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1826 - 114 pages
...a fraction? for doubtless it has appeared rather strange. In multiplying by a whole number we take the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier; and in multiplying by one then, how many times do you take the multiplicand! Ans. 1. Give an example...
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Arithmetick Theoretically and Practically Illustrated

B. M. Tyler - Arithmetic - 1827 - 308 pages
...answer by adding ; but when the multiplier is a large number, it would be very tedious to set down the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, and be obliged to add them up. This shows the great utility of multiplication. 8. What is the price...
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An Introduction to Algebra: Being the First Part of a Course of Mathematics ...

Jeremiah Day - Algebra - 1827 - 352 pages
...to multiplication by positive whole numbers. This, according to the definition (Art. 90.) is taking the multiplicand as many times, as there are units in the multiplier. Suppose a is to be multiplied by b, and that b stands for 3. There are, then, three units in the multiplier...
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Practical and Mental Arithmetic on a New Plan: In which Mental Arithmetic is ...

Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1827 - 216 pages
...fraction, for doubtless it has appeared rather strange. In multiplying by a whole number, we talte the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier ; and in multiplying by one then ; how many times do you take the multiplicand ? A. 1. Give an example....
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A New System of Arithmetick: In which the Rules are Familiarly Demonstrated ...

William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1832 - 282 pages
...to the left. SUPPLEMENT TO MULTIPLICATION. Multiplying by a mixed number, as 6J, 5J, &c. is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier ; and likewise taking a part of the multiplicand as many times as there are like portions of a unit...
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The Common School Arithmetic: Prepared for the Use of Academies and Common ...

Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1833 - 284 pages
...how many times the multiplicand is to be repeated, is called the multiplier. The number arising from repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, is called the product. § -29. The multiplicand and multiplier are factors, or producers, of the product....
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Cobb's Explanatory Arithmetick, No. 1 ...

Lyman Cobb - Arithmetic - 1834 - 120 pages
...amount, several times repeated, may be accomplished by Addition ; first, by writing down the figures of the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, in a column, and adding them up. But the end is attained much more quickly, more pleasantly, and with...
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Elements of Algebra: Tr. from the French of M. Bourdon. Revised and Adapted ...

Charles Davies - Algebra - 1835 - 378 pages
...b). MULTIPLICATION. 40. Algebraic multiplication has the same object as arithmetical, viz. to repeat the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. It is generally proved, in arithmetical treaties, that the product of two or more numbers is the same,...
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The Teacher's Assistant in the "Course of Mathematics Adapted to the Method ...

Mathematics - 1836 - 488 pages
...be subtracted, and then proceeding the same as in addition. Multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Multiplying by a fraction is taking a certain portion of the multiplicand, as many times as there are...
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