The National Arithmetic on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods Forming a Complete Course of Higher Arithmetic |
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Page 160 - Multiply the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators together for a new denominator.
Page 36 - The Dividend is the number to be divided. The Divisor is the number by which we divide.
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| Title | The National Arithmetic on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods Forming a Complete Course of Higher Arithmetic Greenleaf's series of mathematics |
| Author | Benjamin Greenleaf |
| Publisher | Robert S. Davis & Company, 1858 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 444 pages |
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