 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1865 - 468 pages
...Books and Paper 420 Answers 431-455 UNIVERSITY ARITHMETIC. Definitions. 1. A UNIT is a single thing, or one. 2. A NUMBER is a unit, or a collection of units, 3. SCIENCE treats of the properties and relations of things : ART is the practical application of the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1866 - 356 pages
...PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES, . ._ t . . . . . 311 ARITHMETIC. Definitions. 1. A UNIT is a single thing, or one. 2. A NUMBER is a unit, or a collection of units. 3. An ABSTRACT NUMBER is one whose unit is not named ; as, one, two, three, &c. • 4. A DENOMINATE... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1868 - 200 pages
...ARITHMETIC. ARTICLE 1. A UNIT is owe, that is, any single thing ; as, a horse, a day, an apple, an inch. 2. A NUMBER is a unit or a collection of units ; as, one, two, six, three men, ten pints. 3. ARITHMETIC is the science of numbers, and the art of reckoning or... | |
 | Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 540 pages
...and business purposes. 3. A Unit is one, or a single thing; as one, one boy, one year, one dozen. 3. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units ; as one, three, five boys ; it answers the question, How many? 4. An Integral Number or Integer is a number... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Arithmetic - 1877 - 430 pages
...Method of Duodecimals 306 DEFINITIONS. 1. A Unit is a single thing ; as, one pound, one foot, one day. 2. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units; as, one pound, three days, five feet. 3. Arithmetic is the science of numbers. It treats of the properties... | |
 | Andrew H. Baker - Arithmetic - 1878 - 204 pages
...is the science of numbers. 2. A Unit is a single thing ; as, a book, one dollar, or simply one. 3. A Number is a unit or a collection of units ; as, one, ten, five books, twenty-five dollars. 4. The numbers used in Arithmetic are all formed by combinations... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1879 - 392 pages
...Standard Time Sections 375 ARITHMETIC. LA Unit is a single thing of any kind ; as, one day, one book. 2. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units ; as, six days, ten books. « 3. A Concrete Number is a number that is applied to a particular object ; as,... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin, Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1831 - 386 pages
...Examples 347 THE COMPLETE ARITHMETIC. 1. A Unit is a single thing, or one ; as one hour, one 'lollar, one. 2. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units...different figures are used ; they are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Zero, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine. 7. Zero, or cipher, used alone... | |
 | Joseph Ficklin - Arithmetic - 1881 - 406 pages
...thing, or a group of things considered as one ; as one, one book, one dozen, one ten, one hundred. 2. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units; as one, four, six pens, and nine books. A number answers to the question, "How many?" 3. The Unit of a Number... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1881 - 200 pages
...IN ARITHMETIC. NOTATION AND NUMERATION. 1. A Unit is a single thing, or one; as one book, one slate. 2. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units ; as one book, five slates. 3. Arithmetic treats of numbers and their use. 4. Figures are characters used to... | |
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A number is a unit or a collection of units; as one, three apples, five boys. 4. The unit of a number is one of the collection of units which constitutes the number. Thus, the unit of twelve is one, of twenty dollars is one dollar. 
