A Supplement to Accompany the Advanced Arithmetic in the California State Series

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1898 - Arithmetic - 84 pages
 

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Page 72 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center. The radius of a sphere is a straight line drawn from the center to the surface.
Page 36 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 25 - ... as many decimal places in the quotient as there are units in the remainder thus found.
Page 13 - 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 3 - Romans] employs in expressing numbers (seven capital letters, viz.: I for one ; V for five ; X for ten ; L for fifty; C for one hundred; D for five hundred; M for one thousand...
Page 26 - When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers.

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