 | John Davidson, Robert Scott (writing master) - Arithmetic - 1818 - 190 pages
...A Ample fraction is expressed by two numbers, the one above a line, and the other below it, as | . The number below the line is called the denominator, and shows into how many equal parts the whole or unity is divided : the number above the line is called the numerator, and... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 308 pages
...number under the line is called the denominator, and shows into how many equal parts the whole quantity is divided. The number above the line is called the numerator and shows how many of those parts are expressed by the fraction. Example. 1 yard and |. Here the denominator 3 shows that... | |
 | John Lyman Newell - Arithmetic - 1822 - 222 pages
...equal to two halves, &c. Q. What name has each of these figures, and what does it show ? A. The figure below the line is called the Denominator, and shows into how many parts an unit or integer is divided ; the figure above the line is called the Numerator, and shows how many... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1826 - 176 pages
...number below the line is called the denominator, and expresses the number of parts into which the unit is divided. The number above the line is called the numerator, and shows how many of those parts are contained in the fraction ; thus, the meaning; of the expression, -| «'fa bushel,... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - Arithmetic - 1840 - 316 pages
...number below the line is called the denominator, and shows the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided. The number above the line is called the numerator, and shows how many of these equal parts are included in the fraction, or make up its value. Thus of the fraction | , the... | |
 | Lewis Joerres - Arithmetic - 1842 - 174 pages
...horizontal line is called the numerator, because it denotes of how many parts the fraction consists: the number below the line is called the denominator, and shows into how many parts the whole number is divided; as 5, (one half) i, (three fourths) •£, (four fifths) 1 1 (eighteen twenty-ninths);... | |
 | Charles Bathurst (schoolmaster.) - 1842 - 158 pages
...The number below the line is called the denominator and shews into how many equal parts the integer is divided. The number above the line is called the numerator and shews how many of those equal parts are expressed by the fraction. Thus £ means that an integer, or... | |
 | George Hutton (arithmetic master, King's coll. sch.) - 1844 - 276 pages
...it may be sufficient at present to understand that a fraction is expressed by two numbers, of which the number above the line is called the Numerator, and shows how many parts of the unit are contained in the fraction ; and the number below the line is called the Denominator,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 354 pages
...written thus £ ; one third, $ ; one fourth, i ; nine tenths. T9ff ; thirteen forty fifths, £f , &c. The number below the line is called the denominator,...that the number is divided into three equal parts ; ihe numerator 2, shows that two of those parts are expressed by the fraction. The denominator and... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...is written thus 1 ; one third, -i ; one fourth, J- ; nine tenths, ^ ; thirteen forty-fifths, if, &c. *The number below the line is called the denominator,...numerator, and shows how many parts are expressed by the fractions Thus in the fraction |, the denominator 3, shows that the number is divided into three equal... | |
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The number below the line is called the denominator, and shows into how many parts the number or thing is divided. The number above the- line is called the numerator, and shows how many parts are expressed by the fraction. 
