 | Richard W. Green - Arithmetic - 1840 - 300 pages
...If the divisor is 10, 100, 1000, or any number made up of 1 and ciphers, cut off from the right hand of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor. The figures not cut off will be the answer, and those that are cut off, will be the remainder. For... | |
 | W. F. Walker - Arithmetic - 1841 - 246 pages
...number of ciphers annexed, RULE. Point off, or suppose to be pointed off, by a comma, from the right of the dividend, as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor. The figures thus pointed off, are a remainder, under which write the divisor. The figures at the left... | |
 | Osman Call - Arithmetic - 1842 - 210 pages
...2430 by 81. 15. Divide 448 by 56. When the divisor is 10, 100, 1000, &c., cut off from the right hand of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor ; the figures on the left of the point will be the quotient, and the figures on the right of the point... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 300 pages
...100, 1000, 10000, &c., the division may be immediately effected by cutting off from the right hand of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor, the figures cut off when they are significant being placed over the divisor and connected with the... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 710 pages
...100, 1000, 10000, &c., the division may be immediately effected by cutting off from the right hand of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor, the figures cut off when they are significant being placed over the divisor and connected with the... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - Arithmetic - 1846 - 184 pages
...divisor consists of any significant figures whatever with ciphers annexed, we cut off from the right hand of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor, and then divide by the significant figures, removing the figures of the quotient as many places towards... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - 1851 - 214 pages
...of multiplication, to divide by these same numbers, viz., 10, TOO, &c., we cut off front the right of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor. The figures on the left of the dividend point, constitute the quotient, and those on the right, the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1856 - 450 pages
...then is 3, and a remainder of 2 hundreds 7 tens and 8 units, or 278. R0LE. — Cut off" from the right of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor, considering the figures at the left tfie quotient, and those at the right the remainder. 72. When any... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1870 - 192 pages
...the Dividend, form our Quotient. Hence, To DIVIDE BY 10, 100, 1,000, &c.: RULE. Remove at the right of the Dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the Divisor, and take the number composed of the figures so removed for the Final Remainder, and the number composed... | |
 | Alfred Kirk, Henry Holmes Belfield - Arithmetic - 1876 - 220 pages
...OK 1000. Any integral number may be divided by 10, by 100, by 1000, etc., by pointing from the right of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor. Thus, 2846-r-10=284.6=284 and 6 tenths. 2846H-100=28.46=28 and 46 hundredths. 2846^-1000=2.846= 2 and... | |
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Place the sum down as in the last example, then mark off from the right of the dividend as many figures as there are ciphers in the divisor... 
