Arithmetick in Epitome: Or, A Compendium of All Its Rules, Both Vulgar and Decimal. In Two Parts. To which are Now Added, Clear and Plain Demonstrations Deduced from the Principles of Arithmetic Itself; Without Either Reference to Euclid, Or Use of Algebra |
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Page 108 - When first the marriage knot was tied Betwixt my wife and me, My age did hers as far exceed As three times three does three ; , But when ten years and half ten years We man and wife had been, Her age came up as near to mine As eight is to sixteen. Now tell me, I pray, What were our ages on the wedding-day...
Page 149 - To find the value of a fraction in the known parts of an integer. RULE. Multiply, the numerator by the known parts of the integer, and divide by the denominator.
Page 143 - To reduce a compound fraction to a simple one. RULE. — Multiply all the numerators together for a numerator, and all the denominators together for a denominator ; the fraction thus formed will be an equivalent, but often not in its lowest terms.
Page 129 - The sum of all the terms. Any three of which being given, the other two may be found.
Page 11 - A mere certain Proof. A Multiplication fum is then right, when the product, divided by the Multiplier, quotes the Multiplicand ; or, divided by the Multiplicand, quotes the Multiplier. ABBREVIATIONS.
Page 3 - From this Table may be obferved : 1. The Names of the feveral Places, viz. Units, Tens, Hundreds, &c. which proceed (increasing by a tenfold Proportion) from the Right-hand to the Left.
Page 142 - To reduce an improper fraction into its equivalent whole or mix'd number. RULE. Divide the numerator by the denominator, the quotient gives the whole number...
Page 172 - When any number of decimals are to be multiplied by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the separating point in the multiplicand so many places towards the right hand as there are cyphers in the multiplier ; thus : .578 x 10 = 5.78, .578 x 100 = 57.8, .578 x 1000 = 578.
Page 15 - Cut off the cyphers from the divisor, and as many figures from the right-hand of the dividend as there are cyphers so cut off at the right-hand end of the divisor, then proceed with the remaining figures...
Page 107 - As the difference of the errors, if alike, Or their fum, if unlike, To the difference of the...