 | Samuel Read Hall - Arithmetic - 1832 - 294 pages
...as there 1 gg are in the dividend. Hence the 159 following ~To~6 , 106 Divide as in simple numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient as the decimals in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If there are not so many figures in the quotient,... | |
 | Oliver A. Shaw - Arithmetic - 1832 - 108 pages
..." To operate with the fig tires precisely as in whole numbers, and then to point of from the right as many figures for decimals in the quotient, as the number of the decimal places in the dividend exceeds that of the decimal places in the divisor." In the present... | |
 | William Templeton (engineer.) - 1833 - 224 pages
...DECIMALS. RULE. — Prepare your decimals as directed for multiplication, divide as in whole numbers, cut off as many figures for decimals in the quotient as the number in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor, namely, make the number of decimal figures in the... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 402 pages
...these illustrations we deduce the following RULE FOR DIVISION OF DECIMALS. Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient, as the decimal places in the. dividend exceed those in the divisor. If the. quotient does not contain figures... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 426 pages
...illustrations we deduce the following general RULE FOR DIVISION OP DECIMALS. Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If the quotient does not contain figures... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...decimal figures in the dividend than there are in the divisor, there will be as many decimal figures in the quotient as the number of decimal figures in the dividend exceeds the number of decimal figures in the divisor. Hence the following general rule for the division of... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1848 - 434 pages
...illustrations we deduce the following general RULE FOR DIVISION OF DECIMALS. Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If the quotient does not contain figures... | |
 | J. M. Scribner - Mechanical engineering - 1849 - 286 pages
...DECIMALS. Rule. — Prepare the decimal as directed for multiplication ; divide as in whole numbers ; cut off as many figures for decimals in the quotient as the number of decimals in the dividend exceeds the number in the divisor ; and if the places in the quotient be not... | |
 | Almon Ticknor - Measurement - 1849 - 156 pages
...place the decimal point to the left of the ciphers. DIVISION. RULE. — Divide as in whole numbers, and point off as many figures for decimals in the quotient as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If the quotient does not contain figures... | |
 | William Scott - Arithmetic - 1854 - 232 pages
...Divide as in whole numbers, and point off, from the right of the quotient, as many figures for decimals as the number of decimal figures in the dividend exceeds that in the divisor. If the number of decimal figures in the dividend is less than the number in the divisor, zeros equal... | |
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QQ223 ^e divisor is -0^i the quotient must be one hundred times as large, and .00023 multi.023 plied by 100, by removing the point two orders to the right, gives .023. Therefore, the quotient of .00115 divided by .05 is .023. Rule. — Divide as in integers,... 
