Adams's New Arithmetic: Arithmetic, in which the Principles of Operating by Numbers are Analytically Explained and Synthetically Applied

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J. & J. W. Prentiss, 1841 - Arithmetic - 262 pages
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Page 250 - EF or his certain attorney, his executors, administrators or assigns, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents ; Sealed with my seal.
Page 28 - ... miles a day ; how far apart will they be at the end of 6 days ? Ans.
Page 202 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 66 - TABL.E. 4 nails, (na.) or 9 inches, make 1 quarter, marked qr. 4 quarters, or 36 inches, - 1 yard, - - *. - yd. 3 quarters, ------ 1 ell Flemish, - - E. Fl. 5 quarters, ------ 1 ell English, - - EE 6 quarters, - 1 ell French, - - E. Fr.
Page 19 - Multiplication, in which the number to be repeated is called the multiplicand, and the number which shows how many times the multiplicand is to be repeated is called the multiplier. The multiplicand and multiplier, when spoken of collectively, are called the factors, (producers,) and the answer is called the product.
Page 99 - Divide the greater number by the less, and that divisor by the remainder, and so on, always dividing the last divisor by the last remainder, till nothing remain.
Page 202 - Subtract the square number from the left hand period, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a dividend. III. Double the root already found for a divisor; seek how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend...
Page 215 - Hence, to find the common difference, — Divide the difference of the extremes by the number of terms, less 1, and the quotient will be the common difference.
Page 106 - Multiply together the numerators for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.
Page 251 - CD, his heirs, executors, or administrators, do and shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, unto the said EF, his executors, administrators, or assigns, the said sum of, &c., with legal interest of the same, on the said • — day of, &c...

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