The Principles of Arithmetic ...

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Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1856
 

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Page 142 - COUNTING. 12 units or things make 1 dozen. 12 dozen " 1 gross. 12 gross " 1 great gross. 20 units
Page 191 - The first and last terms of a proportion are called the extremes, and the two middle terms are called the means.
Page 68 - ... any number divided by 9 will leave the same remainder as the sum of its digits divided by 9.
Page 254 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; if that be one year or more from the time the interest commenced, add it to the principal, and deduct the payment from the sum total If there be after payments made, compute the interest on the balance due to the next payment, and then deduct the payment as above ; and, in like manner, from one payment to another, till all the payments are absorbed; provided the time between one payment and another be one year or more.
Page 26 - Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another number.
Page 41 - Subtract this product from the figures above it; to the remainder, bring down the next figure of the dividend, and divide as before, until all the figures of the dividend are brought down.
Page 60 - The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor of 36 and 54, since it is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder.
Page 64 - The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that...
Page 25 - How far is it from A to B, from B to C, and from C to D?
Page 56 - A Prime Factor of a number is a prime number that will exactly Divide it; thus, the prime factors of 21 are the prime numbers 1, 3, and 7.

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