 | Warren Colburn - Arithmetic - 1824 - 292 pages
...times too large or ten times too small.-^/The purpose of this article and the next is to show^where the point must be placed in multiplying and dividing....is, 3 hundredths and 5 thousandths. .Reserving the hundred ths, I write the 5 thousandths. Then 7 times 7 hundredths are 49 hundredths, and 3 (which I... | |
 | Daniel Parker - Arithmetic - 1828 - 358 pages
...are multiplied by parts, the product necessarily is but parts of apart. It is hence clearly seen, why there must be as many decimal places in the product as there are in loth the factors. L 2 For the decimal places in both the factors, are respectively involved into each... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - Arithmetic - 1831 - 286 pages
...3£.8s. 3d. 3,4125 20 3,2500 12 It will Ъг recollected by the pupil in pointing off) that títere must be as many decimal places in the product^ as there are decimal places tit Iwtk multiplier and multiplicand. 3,0000 From these illustrations we derive the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1833 - 284 pages
...the quotient will produce the dividend. But when decimal fractions are multiplied together there will be as many decimal places in the product as there are in the multiplier and multiplicand § 167. Therefore the dividend must contain as many decimal places as the... | |
 | James Wood - 1857 - 634 pages
...multiplication, viz. Multiply as in rvhole numbers, taking no notice of the decimal points, and point off' as many decimal places in the product as there are in the multiplicand and multiplier together. To prove the Rule for Division; Let the dividend be made to have, if it has... | |
 | Charles Elsee - Arithmetic - 1866 - 300 pages
...17-8946— 30-254— -5 + 21-12. 37. — Multiplication. BULB. Multiply as in integers ; and mark off as many decimal places in the product as there are in the multiplier and multiplicand together. Ex. (1) Multiply 1-394 by 2-71 i'394 2-71 1394 9758 2788 377774... | |
 | Shelton Palmer Sanford - Arithmetic - 1872 - 404 pages
...order that the product might be ten-thousandths. These examples make it clear that there will always be as many decimal places in the product as there are in the multi plicand and multiplier counted together. Hence the RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and in... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Arithmetic - 1878 - 240 pages
...Since tenths multiplied by hundredths give thousandths, .5 x .09 = .045. PRINCIPLE. — There will be as many decimal places in the product as there are in the factors. RULE. Multiply as in integers, and point off from the right of the product, as many decimal... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1879 - 392 pages
...under tlie figure of the m/ultiplier which produces it. 3. Add these partial products and point off as many decimal places in the product as there are in the multiplicand, and the result will be the true product. 62. PBOOF. Multiply the multiplier by the multiplicand, and,... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1882 - 392 pages
...136. The methods of written work in multiplication of decimals are based upon the following PRINCIPLE. There must be as many decimal places in the product as there are in both factors. Ex. 1. The factors are .24 and 39. What is the product? EXPLANATION.—I write the FIRST... | |
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... place. In multiplying a decimal fraction by an integer, there are as many decimal places in the product as there are in the multiplicand. 
