 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...any figure which docs not contain the divisor, place a cipher in the quotient, and prefix tlua figure to the next one of the dividend, as if it were a remainder, and proceed in the same manner to tho lost figure. (2.) When tho divisor contains more than one figure,... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Arithmetic - 1818 - 332 pages
...must be placed at the right hand of the dividend. RULE. 1. Having written the divisor at the left hand of the dividend, find how many times the divisor is contained in the first figure of the dividend, or if not in Hie first, how many times it is contained in the two first... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 300 pages
...divisor being the denominator. RULE FOR DIVISION. When the divisor does not exceed 9, draw a line under the dividend, find- how many times the divisor is contained in the left hand figure, or two left hand figures of the dividend, and write the figure expressing the number... | |
 | Frederick Emerson - Arithmetic - 1834 - 204 pages
...651 contained in 43 126 ? RULE FOR DIVISION. When the divisor does not exceed 9, draw a line under the dividend, find how many times the divisor is contained in the left hand figure, or two left hand figures of the dividend, and write. the figure expressing the number... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1837 - 306 pages
...cube thus found from the said period, and to the remainder bring down the next period, and call this the dividend. • , Find how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend, and place the result in the root (quotient) ; then multiply the divisor by this quotient... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1839 - 308 pages
...cube thus found from the said period, and to the remainder bring down the next period, and call this the dividend. Find how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend, and place the result in the root (quotient) ; then multiply the divisor by this quotient... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - Arithmetic - 1840 - 326 pages
...dividend, and, drawing a curve line both on the right and left of it, place the divisor on the left. 2d. Find how many times the divisor is contained in the fewest figures that will contain it, taken from the left of the dividend ; and place the figure expressing the number of times on the right... | |
 | George Leonard (jr.) - Arithmetic - 1841 - 350 pages
...remainder for a dividend. Double the root already found for a divisor, and omitting the right hand figure of the dividend, find how many times the divisor is contained in the rest of it, and place the result at the right of the root already found, and also at the right of the... | |
 | George Leonard - 1841 - 356 pages
...remainder for a dividend. Double the root already found for a divisor, and omitting the right hand figure of the dividend, find how many times the divisor is contained in the rest of it, and place the result at the right of the root already found, and also at the right of the... | |
 | George Leonard - Arithmetic - 1841 - 356 pages
...remainder for a dividend. Double the root already found for a divisor, and omitting the right hand figure of the dividend, find how many times the divisor is contained in the rest of it, and place the result at the right of the root already found, and also at the right of the... | |
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... if the divisor is not contained in any figure of the dividend, place a cipher in the quotient and prefix this figure to the next one of the dividend, as if it were a remainder. 
