 | Thomas Peacock - Arithmetic - 1791 - 302 pages
...decimal points may ftand in one column. Draw a line under them, and add them as whole numbers. Then, point off as many places, for decimals, as are equal to the grcaieft number of decimal places in any line of the qudtion. EXAMPLES. i. What is the fum of 417164,... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Arithmetic - 1806 - 502 pages
...according to their values, viz. primes under primes, feconds under feconds, &c. Then find their fum as in whole numbers, and point off as many places for decimals as are equal to the greateft number of decimal places in any of the given numbers. Example i. What is the fum of 22.5709,... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Education - 1806 - 576 pages
...according to their values, viz. primes under primes, feconds under feconds, &c. Then find their (urn us in whole numbers, and point off* as many places- for decimals as are equal to the greateft number of decimal places in any of the given numbers. Example i. What is the fum of 21.5 70,1,... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1807 - 248 pages
...according to the value of their pluces." " 2. FIND their sum as in whole numbers, and point off so many places for decimals as are equal to the greatest number of decimal places in any .. *f the given numbers.'' « I* • EXAMPLES. 1. What1 is the amount of 73,612 guineas, 486 guineas,... | |
 | Isaac Dalby - Mathematics - 1807 - 476 pages
...Required the difference of 594-0012 and 24-98 ( 594-0012 24-93 MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS. 63. MULTIPLY as in whole numbers, and point off as many places for decimals in the product as there are decimals in both multiplier and multiplicand ; but if there should not... | |
 | Nicolas Pike - Algebra - 1808 - 470 pages
...according to the value of their places. _ '„• . 2. Find their sum as in whole numbers, and point off so many places for decimals, as are equal to the greatest...number of decimal places in any of the given numbers. EXAMPLES. 1. Find the sum of 19-073+2-3597+223+-01975S1+3478-1+12-358. 19-073 2-3597 223•0197581... | |
 | James Thompson - Arithmetic - 1808 - 176 pages
...RULE— Place the numbers so that the decimal points may stand all exactly under tach other, then add as in whole numbers ; and point off as many places for decimals as there are the most in any of the given numbers. EXAMPLES. 1. Add together 29.0146, 3146.5, 2109, .62417... | |
 | James Noyes - Arithmetic - 1808 - 168 pages
...together, as in whole numbers, and point off so many figures in the sum, for decimals,, as are eqtml to the greatest number of decimal places in any of the given numbers. 802,34» 1>64145 1240,23 4. Required the sum of 7268,45321 — 3,600599» — 20—,00010094 — 276,3375,... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1810 - 190 pages
...tenths, hundredths under hundredths, according to the value of their places, and point off in the results as many places for decimals as are equal to the greatest...number of decimal places in any of the given numbers. . EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 3. A man sold wheat at several times as follows, viz. 13'25 bushels ; 8'4... | |
 | Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1812 - 236 pages
...MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS. RULE. Multiply exactly as in whole numbers, and from the right of the product point off as many places for decimals, as are equal to the decimal places in the multiplicand and multiplier, counted together ; If at any time there are not... | |
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... as many places for decimals as are equal to the greatest number of decimal places in any of the given numbers. 
