| Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1846 - 370 pages
...avoirdupois and the ounce troy ? MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. 134. MULTIPLICATION is a short method of taking one number, called the multiplicand, as many times as there are units in another number, called the multiplier. Hence, when the multiplier is less than 1 we do not take... | |
| Charles Davies - Logic - 1850 - 398 pages
...in the development of its principles. For example, the definition of multiplication is, that it is the process of taking one number, called the multiplicand, as many times as there are units in another called the multiplier. This definition, as one of science, requires two things. 1st. That... | |
| Charles Davies - Logic - 1850 - 400 pages
...its principles. Definm™ of For example, the definition of multiplication is, ""tion °a. that it is the process of taking one number, called the multiplicand, as many times as there are What it da- umts m another called the multiplier. This definmuds. nition, as one of science, requires... | |
| Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1850 - 412 pages
...avoirdupois and the ounce troy ! MULTIPLICATION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS. 134. MULTIPLICATION is a short method of taking one number, called the multiplicand, as many times as there are units in another number, called the multiplier. Hence, when the multiplier is less than 1 we do not take... | |
| Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1858 - 174 pages
...shall contain as many units, and no more, as are found in all the numbers added. Multiplication is taking one number, called the multiplicand, as many times as there are units in another number, called the multiplier, and the number which shows the result of such taking, is.called.the... | |
| C. Frusher Howard - Ready-reckoners - 1884 - 144 pages
...minuend. MULTIPLICATION. MULTIPLICATION is the addition of several numbers in one act by adding to zero, one number called the Multiplicand, as many times as there are units in another number called the Multiplier. The answer is called the Product. Hote.— The multiplier... | |
| John Henry Tanner - Algebra - 1904 - 398 pages
...(iii) Multiplication is usually defined as the process (or operation) of taking one of two numbers, called the multiplicand, as many times as there are units in the other, which is called the multiplier. In this sense multiplication is, fundamentally, the same as addition.... | |
| Samuel Chester Parker - Education, Secondary - 1915 - 568 pages
...algebra from which it is quoted criticizes the ordinary simpler definition in the following words : Multiplication has been defined in arithmetic as the...fails when it is a fraction. Thus, to multiply 7 by i\ would mean to take 7 as many times as there are units in 2^, that is, 2^ times. This is impossible.... | |
| Clarence Wesley Sutton, Nels Johann Lennes - Business mathematics - 1918 - 320 pages
...Wt. 4160, T. 1420. CHAPTER IV MULTIPLICATION 37. Definition of Multiplication. — Multiplication is the process of taking one number, called the multiplicand, as many times as the number one is contained in another number, called the multiplier. 38. Uses of Multiplication. —... | |
| Samuel Chester Parker - Education, Secondary - 1920 - 580 pages
...algebra from which it is quoted criticizes the ordinary simpler definition in the following words : Multiplication has been defined in arithmetic as the...fails when it is a fraction. Thus, to multiply 7 by 2 J would mean to take 7 as many times as there are units in 2^, that is, 2^ times. This is impossible.... | |
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