 | Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...subtractions. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number you divide by is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. If the dividend contains the divisor any number of times, aqd some part or parts over, those parts... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 406 pages
...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. — Sometimes there is a Remainder left, after the division is finished. The usual manner of placing the terms, is,... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1811 - 210 pages
...another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the di-visor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. If, on- dividing a number^ there be any overplus, it is called tKe remainder. < The dividual is a partial... | |
 | Samuel Webber - Arithmetic - 1812 - 260 pages
...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. If the dividend contain the divisor any number of times and an excess, that excess is called the remainder.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1816 - 610 pages
...The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — The number 10 divide by, is the Divisor — And the number of times the dividend contains the divisor, is called the Quotient — Sometimes there is a Remainder left, after the division is finished. The usual manner of placing the terms, is,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — The number to-divideby, is the Divisor. — And the number of times the dividend contains the divisor, is called the Quotient. — Sometimes there is a Remainder left, after the division is finished. The usual manner of placing the terms, is,... | |
 | Etienne Bézout - Mathematics - 1824 - 238 pages
...<lii)idend; the number by which division is performed, is called the divisor ; and that which expressas the number of times the dividend contains the divisor, is called the quotient. It is not always the object of division to know how often one of two proposed numbers contains the... | |
 | Stephen Pike - Arithmetic - 1824 - 212 pages
...another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. If, on dividing a number, there be any overplus, it is called the remainder. The dividual is a partial... | |
 | William Kinne - 1829 - 246 pages
...The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. The remainder, if there be any, will be less than the divisor. 1t is called Simple Division, if the... | |
 | William Kinne - Accounting - 1831 - 248 pages
...quotient ; that is, 6 are contained 4 times in 24. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The remainder, if there be any, will be less than... | |
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By division we ascertain how often one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. 
