 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1881 - 446 pages
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, Thomas Hill - Arithmetic - 1882 - 376 pages
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1888 - 388 pages
...meter ; and from this are derived the units of surface, volume, and weight. The meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole, but more careful measurements of meridians show that this distance is 10,001,887 meters.... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 440 pages
...units, viz. : surface, volume, capacity, and weight are derived. 1. The length of the meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the poles, but subsequent calculations have shown it to be a very little less than that. 2. The system... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 186 pages
...defined by a platino-iridium bar kept in the International Metric Bureau at Paris. The metre was meant to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, but a slight error in the calculation has been discovered. The Latin prefixes indicate the denominations... | |
 | Joe Garner Estill - 1896 - 214 pages
...denned by a platino-iridium bar kept in the International Metric Bureau at Paris. The metre was meant to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, but a slight error in the calculation lias been discovered. The Latin prefixes indicate the denominations... | |
 | Edwin Crawford Hewett - Arithmetic - 1897 - 370 pages
...rarely used in ordinary business transactions. The standard of the metric system is the Meter, which was supposed to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the pole, measured on the earth's surface at the sea-level. The meter is 39.37+ inches in length, or it is a... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1898 - 332 pages
...its area ? (c) What is its perimeter ? 6. The area of a certain square piece of land is 2J acres, (a) Find (in rods) its side, (b) Find its perimeter, (c)...pole. A pendulum that vibrates seconds is nearly one tneter long.* In the names of the derived units of this system the prefix deka means 10; hekto means... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1898 - 326 pages
...equal factors of 93025. 10. Find one of the three equal factors of 74088. METRIC SYSTEM. NOTE.—"Work equivalent to that found on pp. 154, 164, 174, etc.,...hekto means 100; kilo means 1000; myria means 10000; den means tenth; centi means hundredth; milli means thousandth. 320. LINEAR MEASURE. 10 millimeters... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Education - 1898 - 296 pages
...164, 174, etc., of the Werner Arithmetic, Book II, should be done by the pupils before thischapteris attempted. If such work has not been done the teacher...hekto means 100; kilo means 1000; myria means 10000; dcci means tenth; centi means hundredth; ntilli means thousandth. 320. LINEAR MEASURE. 10 millimeters... | |
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Pupils must learn to think of quantity in metric units. 319. All units in the metric system of measures and weights are derived from the primary unit known as the meter. When the length of the primary unit of this system was determined it was supposed... 
