 | Samuel Webber - Mathematics - 1808 - 466 pages
...contained in another of the same denomination, and thereby performs the work of many subtractions. The number, to be divided, is called the dividend. The number, to divide, is called the divisor. The number of times, the dividend contains the divisor, is called the quotient.... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 734 pages
...in. 175 136 150 25 150 DIVISION. DIVISION is an operation by which we discover how often one given number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the Dividend, the number by which you divide is the Divisor, and that which expresses how often the Divisor is contained in... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 406 pages
...how often one number is contained in another, or may be taken out of it : which is the same thing. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — • The number to divide by, is the Divisor.- — And the number of times the dividend contains the divisor, is called the Quotient.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 620 pages
...how often one number is contained in" another, or may be taken out of it : which is the same thing. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — The number to divide by, is the Divisor. — And the number of times the dividend contains the divisotj is called the Quotient.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Arithmetic - 1818 - 78 pages
...dividend. The sum by which we divide is called the divisor, The result is balled the quotient. SIMPLE DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another of Uie same kind. ILLUSTRATION. Take in the hand 9 cents — count them out into parcels if two each.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1825 - 608 pages
...how often one number is contained in another, or may be taken out of it : which is the same thing. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — The number to divlile by. is the Divisor — And the number of times the dividend contains the divisor, is called... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1826 - 114 pages
...denomination, Compound of more than one, or different denominations. What is Compound Division then? Ans. It IS the process of finding how many times, one number is contained in another, of different denominations. With which denomination do you begin to divide? Any. The highest. How divide... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1827 - 216 pages
...equal parts, or finding hnw many times one number is contained in another, called ? Д. Division. What is the process of finding how many times, one number is contained in another of the same kind or denomination, called ? A. Simple Division. How many parts is it divided into ?... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1831 - 198 pages
...contain the tea wef 3 e chest^ou ' WhSt Would the tM weiSh wiH Ans. 912poundj DIVI8ION. I The number Jo be divided is called the dividend | The number to divide by is called thefflS. dividend The dividual is a partial dividend, or so many of the dividend figures as are taken... | |
 | Silas Totten - Algebra - 1836 - 360 pages
...multiplication, for, as 4x6 is' equal to 24, it must follow, that 6 is contained' four times in twenty four. The number to be divided is called the dividend, the number to divide by is called the dii.isor, and the number of times it is contained in the dividend, is called the quotient. If the dividend... | |
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The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. 
