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... methods , by which numerical measures of geometrical quantities are obtained . In all practical applications of mathematics , it is necessary to express magnitudes , of every kind , by numbers . For this purpose , a line of some ...
... methods , by which numerical measures of geometrical quantities are obtained . In all practical applications of mathematics , it is necessary to express magnitudes , of every kind , by numbers . For this purpose , a line of some ...
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... methods . A line , considered as traced upon the ground , may be measured with rods , or an instrument , called Gunter's chain of sixty - six feet ; but still 1 Winchester bushel . 1 Scotch pint . Scotch pints . more expeditiously , by ...
... methods . A line , considered as traced upon the ground , may be measured with rods , or an instrument , called Gunter's chain of sixty - six feet ; but still 1 Winchester bushel . 1 Scotch pint . Scotch pints . more expeditiously , by ...
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... method of measuring casks , and other vessels and packages that fall under the cognizance of the officers of the excise . It derives its name from a rod , called a gauge , used for this purpose . From the way in which casks are ...
... method of measuring casks , and other vessels and packages that fall under the cognizance of the officers of the excise . It derives its name from a rod , called a gauge , used for this purpose . From the way in which casks are ...
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... method or art of computing by them . This science must have existed , to a certain degree , in the earliest ages ; for it is hardly possible to conceive that any nation , or indeed any individual endowed with reason , could be ...
... method or art of computing by them . This science must have existed , to a certain degree , in the earliest ages ; for it is hardly possible to conceive that any nation , or indeed any individual endowed with reason , could be ...
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William Jillard Hort. Romans followed a similar method , and besides characters for each rank of classes , they intro- duced others , for five , fifty , and five hundred . * Their numeral letters and values are the following ...
William Jillard Hort. Romans followed a similar method , and besides characters for each rank of classes , they intro- duced others , for five , fifty , and five hundred . * Their numeral letters and values are the following ...
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Page 60 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 227 - Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by a force impressed upon it.
Page 228 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary pans.
Page 32 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees...
Page 90 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 228 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
Page 55 - PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides.
Page 157 - It is bounded on the North by the Arctic Ocean ; on the East by the Pacific Ocean ; on the South by the Indian Ocean ; and on the West by the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Oural Mountains.
Page 97 - Multiply the first and second terms together, and divide the product by the third ; the quotient will be the answer in the same denomination as the middle term was reduced into.
Page 19 - ... When a straight line standing on another straight line, makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it. 11. An obtuse angle is that which is greater than a right angle. 12. An acute angle is that which is less than a right angle. 13. A term or boundary is the extremity of any thing.