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" The number to divide by, is the Divisor.- — And the number of times the dividend contains the divisor, is called the Quotient. "
A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies, as Well as Private ... - Page 18
by Charles Hutton - 1822
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Mathematics: Compiled from the Best Authors and Intended to be the ..., Volume 1

Mathematics - 1801 - 446 pages
...subtractions. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number you divide by is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. If the dividend contains the divisor any number of times, aqd some part or parts over, those parts...
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A Course of Mathematics ...: Composed for the Use of the Royal Military ...

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 406 pages
...is the same thing. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — • The number to divide by, is the Divisor.- — And the number of times the dividend...12 by 4, the quotient is 3, Dividend 12 Divisor*) 12 (3 Quotient; 4 subtr, showing that the number 4 is 3 times — contained in 12, or may be 3 times...
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The Teachers Assistant. Or, A System of Practical Arithmetic: Wherein the ...

Arithmetic - 1811 - 210 pages
...another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the di-visor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. If, on- dividing a number^ there be any overplus, it is called tKe remainder. < The dividual is a partial...
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A System of Arithmetic: Reprinted from the Mathematical Text-book

Samuel Webber - Arithmetic - 1812 - 260 pages
...subtractions. The number, to be divided, is called the dividend. The number, to divide, is called the divisor. The number of times, the dividend contains the divisor, is called the quotient. If the dividend contain the divisor any number of times and an excess, that excess is called the remainder....
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A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 620 pages
...which is the same thing. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — The number to divide by, is the Divisor. — And the number of times the dividend contains the divisotj is called the Quotient. — Sometimes there is a Remainder left, after the division is finished....
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A Course of Mathematics: In Two Volumes : for the Use of Academies ..., Volume 1

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1816 - 610 pages
...which is the same thing. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — The number 10 divide by, is the Divisor — And the number of times the dividend...as, to divide 12 by 4, the quotient is 3, Dividend J2 Divisor 4) 12 ( 3 Quotient ; 4 subtr. showing that the number 4 is 3 times — contained in 12,...
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Elements of Arithmetic

Etienne Bézout - Mathematics - 1824 - 238 pages
...<lii)idend; the number by which division is performed, is called the divisor ; and that which expressas the number of times the dividend contains the divisor, is called the quotient. It is not always the object of division to know how often one of two proposed numbers contains the...
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The Teachers' Assistant: Or a System of Practical Arithmetic

Stephen Pike - Arithmetic - 1824 - 212 pages
...another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number to divide by is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. If, on dividing a number, there be any overplus, it is called the remainder. The dividual is a partial...
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A Course of Mathematics for the Use of Academies: As Well as ..., Volume 1

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1825 - 608 pages
...which is the same thing. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. — The number to divlile by. is the Divisor — And the number of times the dividend...division is finished. The usual manner of placing the term?, is, the dividend in the middlf, having the divisor on the left hand, and the quotient on the...
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A Short System of Practical Arithmetic: Compiled from the Best Authorities ...

William Kinne - 1829 - 246 pages
...The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the quotient. The remainder, if there be any, will be less than the divisor. 1t is called Simple Division, if the...
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