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Page 37 - The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor.
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| Title | A New System of Arithmetic, on an Improved Plan ... |
| Author | Charles Guilford Burnham |
| Publisher | J.P. Jewett & Company, 1859 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Feb 2007 |
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