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" If the divisor contains decimal places, we may remove the decimal point from the divisor, provided we carry the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor. "
A Practical Arithmetic - Page 48
by George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - 1882 - 351 pages
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A Complete and Compendious Treatise of Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal ...

Thomas Clarke (accountant.) - Arithmetic - 1742 - 152 pages
...Denomination as are equal to an Unite of that Denomination the Fraction is of, and from the Product fh ike off as many Places to the Right, as there are Decimal Places in the Fraction to be valued ; thofe Places on the Left of the Stroke are Integers of the next inferior Denomination,...
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Silcock's Ironmonger's tables; also, rules for measurements [&c.].

O. Silcock - 1851 - 48 pages
...Multiplication, place them as whole numbers, regardless of the points, but separate from the product, as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the multiplier and multiplicand together : if there are not so many places, add cyphers to the left to...
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A Treatise on Arithmetic ...

Noble Heath - 1855 - 468 pages
...the dividend, when integral, or remove its comma, when decimal, (annexing ciphers if necessary •,) as many places to the right, as there are decimal places in the divisor, in which we then suppress the comma. Both numbers being thus (228) multiplied by the same number, the...
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A Treatise on Arithmetic: Through which the Entire Science Can be Most ...

Noble Heath - Arithmetic - 1856 - 472 pages
...of the dividend, when integral, or remove its comma, when decimal, (annexing ciphers if necessary,} as many places to the right, as there are decimal places in the divisor, in which we then suppress the comma. Both numbers being thus (228) multiplied by the same number, the...
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The Common-school Arithmetic: a Practical Treatise on the Science of Numbers

Dana Pond Colburn - 1858 - 288 pages
...perform the division as though the divisor were a whole number, and then remove the point in the quotient as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the divisor. The quotient will thus contain aa many places of decimal fractions as there are in the dividend more...
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Bourdon's Arithmetic: Containing a Discussion of the Theory of Numbers

Bourdon (M., Louis Pierre Marie) - Arithmetic - 1858 - 262 pages
...We see that this method consists in suppressing the point in the divisor, taking care to remove it in the dividend as many places to the right as there are decimals in the divisor; then, in operating upon the resulting numbers, as in the first case, with...
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A Written Arithmetic, for Common and High Schools: To which is Adapted a ...

George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 376 pages
...number, make it a whole number before dividing, by removing the decimal point to the right. Remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right; divide, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as there are in the altered dividend....
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A Written Arithmetic, for Common and Higher Schools; to which is Adapted a ...

George Augustus Walton, Mrs. Electra Nobles Lincoln Walton - Arithmetic - 1865 - 354 pages
...number, make it a whole number before dividing, by removing the decimal point to the right. Remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right; divide, and point off as many decimal placet in the quotient as there are in the altered dividend....
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New Practical Arithmetic in which the Science and Its Applications are ...

Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...whole number, by removing its decimal point a sufficient number of places to the right, and remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the right ; then divide, and point off in the quotient as many decimal places as there are in this changed dividend....
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The principles of arithmetic

Daniel O'Sullivan - 1872 - 366 pages
...Decimal occurs in the Divisor : Regard the Divisor as a whole number, and remove the decimal point of the Dividend as many places to the right as there are decimal places in the Divisor ; then, proceed as already directed. [§ 65, part 2 ; or § 67 — as the case may be.] NOTE. — In...
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