 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1867 - 240 pages
...results 60 —18 errors +36 Now, the true correction is 1, but -we obtained |, because although ihe suppositions, 2 and 4, are equally distant from the...suppositions is very near the true number. Attention to this principle will often guide the pupil in selecting trial numbers for the second operation. (4)... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1868 - 386 pages
...given equation, and. let E and E' represent the errors which result from these substitutions. We assume that the errors of the results are proportional to the errors of the assumed numbers. This supposition is not entirely correct; but if we employ numbers near to the true... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1873 - 396 pages
...given equation, and Jet E and E' represent the errors which result from these substitutions. We assume that the errors of the results are proportional to* the errors of the assumed numbers. This supposition is not entirely correct ; but if we employ numbers near to the true... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Algebra - 1888 - 868 pages
...separately substituted for x in /(«); and assume that the results, which may also be considered as the errors of the results, are proportional to the errors of the assumed numbers. Although tin's assumption is not strictly correct, yet if the numbers a and b are... | |
| |
E, represent the errors which result from these substitutions. "We assume that the errors of the results are proportional to the errors of the assumed numbers. This supposition is not entirely correct ; but if we employ numbers near to the true values,... 