| George Willson - Arithmetic - 1838 - 194 pages
...10000=3650. DIVISION OF DECIMALS. RULE. Divide as in whole numbers ; and point off from the right of the quotient as many places for decimals, as the decimal...places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If there are not as many places in the quotient as the rule requires, prefix ciphers. When there are... | |
| Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1838 - 292 pages
...following RULE. Divide as in simple numbers, and point off in the quotient, from the right hand, so many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor; and if there are not so many, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. Q. If one decimal fraction... | |
| Thomas Kerigan - Nautical astronomy - 1838 - 804 pages
...the same manner as in whole numbers j observing to point off as many decimal places in the quotient as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor : — But if there be not as many figures in the quotient as there are in that excess, the deficiency must be supplied... | |
| Michael Walsh - Arithmetic - 1838 - 346 pages
...DIVISION OF DECIMALS. RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor. If the places of the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect... | |
| Frederick Augustus Griffiths - 1839 - 348 pages
...to supply the deficiency. Division of decimals. Rule. Divide as in whole numbers ; and point off in the quotient as many places for decimals, as the decimal...places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. When the decimal places of the quotient are not so many as the above rule requires, the deficiency... | |
| Nathan Daboll - 1839 - 220 pages
...RULE. 1 . Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand in the quotient point off as many figures for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 2. If the places in the quotient be not so many as the rule requires, supply the deficiency by prefixing... | |
| James H. Porter - Arithmetic - 1841 - 210 pages
...DIVISION OF DECIMALS. Rule. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those of the divisor. If the places of the quotient are not so many as the iule requires, supply the defect... | |
| William Ruger - Arithmetic - 1841 - 268 pages
...RULE.— Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient, point off as many figures for decimals as the decimal . places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor ; if there be not enough in the quotient, prefix ciphers to the left hand of rhe quotient^ to supply... | |
| W. F. Walker - Arithmetic - 1841 - 246 pages
...it may be divided (§ 36. 1). 6. The point is written at the left of so many figures in the quotient as the decimal places in the -dividend exceed those in the divisor, for the reason that the dividend being in effect the product of the divisor and quotient (§ 36. 3),... | |
| Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1842 - 592 pages
...DECIMALS. Divide as in whole numbers, observing to point off as many decimal places in the quoticnt, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If there be not as many figures in the quoticnt as are equal to that excess, supply the deficicney... | |
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