 | George G. Carey - Arithmetic - 1818 - 602 pages
...quotient carried to any degree of exactness required. 3. To divide by any number that has ciphers annexed, remove the decimal point in the dividend, as many places to the left hand as there arc ciphers on the right of the divisor. *.l. The number of decimal places in the divisor... | |
 | Pliny Earle Chase - 1844 - 164 pages
...of its factors in succes280 sion. ' once, by the whole divi7.0 When there are 0* at the right-hand remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as we cut off Os. 7.0 of the divisor, we may cut them off, and Divide 27506 by 1300. 13|00) 275.06 (21... | |
 | Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 276 pages
...margin. 5. Divide 81564 by "100; by 1000; by 10000. RULE. When the divisor lias naughts on the right, remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as there are naughts on the right of the divisor ; cancel. the naughts, and divide by the remaining figure... | |
 | Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 402 pages
...cancel the 15.203 0, and divide by 2. See margin. RULE. When the divisor has naughts on the right, remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as there are naughts on the right of the divisor ; cancel the naughts, and divide by the remaining figure... | |
 | Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1850 - 274 pages
...margin. 5. Divide 81564 by 100; by 1000; by 10000. RULE. 'When the divisor has naughts on the right, remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the left as there are naughts on the right of the divisor ; cancel the naughts, and divide by the remaining figure... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 376 pages
...a whole 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.... | |
 | George Augustus Walton, Mrs. Electra Nobles Lincoln Walton - Arithmetic - 1865 - 354 pages
...a whole 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.... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 356 pages
...lif., Ans. 123.107. 186» To divide a decimal by 1O, 10O, 1OOO, etc. Rule.—Remove the decimal point as many places to the left as títere are ciphers in the divisor, (41, 3). 1. 432.68^-10. Ans. 43.268: 3. 1.47-4-1000. Ans. .00147. FBACTICAL QUESTIONS. What is the... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...make it a 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 the changed... | |
 | William Harding Girdlestone - 1870 - 482 pages
...given. A form now often taught is as follows: " Remove the decimal point to the end of the divisor: "remove the decimal point in the dividend as many places to the riykt "as it has been moved in the divisor: in the quotient, insert the deci"mal point when the decimal... | |
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dividend over those in the divisor, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. If there is a remainder, the division may be continued, the ciphers annexed being so many decimals of the dividend. To divide by 10,100, 1000, etc., remove the decimal point... 
