| 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,... | |
| 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 - 1882 - 212 pages
...MEASUREMENTS 148 REVIEW 161 PERCENTAGE 166 INTEREST 174 BUSINESS FORMS . 180 GENERAL REVIEW 182 A BEIEF COURSE ARITHMETIC. NOTATION AND NUMERATION. 1. A Unit is...numbers: Name. Zero, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine. Figure. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. These figures used alone express the... | |
| Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1882 - 398 pages
...Examples 347 THE COMPLETE ARITHMETIC. 1. A Unit is a single thing, or one ; as one hour, one dollar, one. 2. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units ; as one month, four hours, seven. 3. Arithmetic treats of numbers and their use. NOTATION AND NUMERATION. 4.... | |
| Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - Business mathematics - 1882 - 224 pages
...NUMBERS. DEFINITIONS. 1. A Unit, or Unity, is one, or a single tiling; as one, one foot, one dollar. 2. A Number is a unit, or a collection of units ; as one, four, three feet, Jive dollars. 3. All numbers are either integral or fractional, abstract or concrete.... | |
| James William Nicholson - Arithmetic - 1885 - 248 pages
...NOTATION AND NUMERATION. 1. A Unit is a single thing or one ; as one, one dime, one dozen, one hundred. 2. A Number is a unit or a collection of units; as one, five, seven men, twenty days. 3. The TTnit of a Number is one of the units of which the number is formed.... | |
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