 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 428 pages
...To change a metric number from a unit of a lower to a unit of a higlter denomination* Rule. — Move the decimal point as many places to the left as there are O's following the 1 in the number expressing the units of the lower denomination that it takes to make... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...; or mills to dollars, divide by 1000. Cents or mills may be reduced directly to dollars by placing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor (Art. 64). Examples. 4. In 691000 mills how many dollars ? Ans. $691. 5. In 162 cents how many dollars... | |
 | Adolf Sonnenschein - 1870 - 276 pages
...468-12 x 299-875 to the nearest integer. § 5. DIvISION. CASE I. By a power of 10. (Cf. p. 107.) Shift the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers if necessary, and curtail the decimal thus obtained. ^4- 100 to 5 places. Ar-100=... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1873 - 260 pages
...carrying the division to three decimal places. 2. To divide a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, etc., Remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. REVIEW PROBLEMS. 1. Express decimally ^ of one hundredth. 2. Reduce y^^ to a decimal. 3. Change .0325... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1870 - 350 pages
...the division to four or five decimal places. 2. To divide a decimal by 10, 100, 1000, etc., Remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in th". divisor. REVIEW PROBLEMS. 1. Reduce yf-j to a decimal. 2. Reduce 2g700 to a decimal. 3. Change... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson, Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1871 - 384 pages
...the required denomination. Since the divisor is always 10, 100, 1000, &c., the operation is performed by removing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, prefixing ciphers when necessary. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Reduce 2A 5 to myriares. 2. Reduce SM 403... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1871 - 350 pages
...( + ) can be used. NOTE 3. — When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers. Thus 1.25 -i- 10 = .125 ; and 1.7... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson, Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1871 - 384 pages
...the required denomination. Since the divisor is always 10, 100, 1000, &c., the operation is performed by removing the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers ia the divisor, prefixing ciphers when necessary. EXAMPLES FOIl PRACTICE. 1. Reduce 2A 5 to myriares.... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1871 - 336 pages
...100, 1000, etc., the quotient may be obtained, at once, by removing the decimal point in the dividend, as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor. For, since the value denoted by figures is multiplied by 10 by re moving the decimal point one place... | |
 | Daniel O'Sullivan - 1872 - 382 pages
...convert a DECIMAL fraction into a simple number, we set down the numerator (by itself), and remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the denominator. Thus, -3s=3-+10=-3; i§g=789-r-i00=7-89; t§io=67i ,000= -067 ; &c. XOTE. — The Fractional... | |
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When a decimal number is to be divided by 10, 100, 1000, &c., remove the decimal point as many places to the left as there are ciphers in the divisor, and if there be not figures enough in the number, prefix ciphers. 
