 | Silas Totten - Algebra - 1836 - 360 pages
...OF DECIMALS. RULE. (51.) Divide as in whole numbers, and point off, in the quotient, as many figures for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. The reason for this rule is evident, for the quotient multiplied by the divisor, must produce the dividend... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1838 - 292 pages
...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...many, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. Q. If one decimal fraction be multiplied by another, how many decimal places will there be in the product... | |
 | George Willson - Arithmetic - 1838 - 194 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel Adams - 1839 - 268 pages
...from the right hand of the quotient point off as many figures for decimals, as the decimal figures in the dividend exceed those in the divisor, and if there are not so many figures in the quotient, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. If at any time there is a remainder,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Griffiths - 1839 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1840 - 278 pages
...from the right hand of the quotient point off as many figure* for decimals, as the decimal figures in the dividend exceed those in the divisor, and if there are not so many figures in the quotient, supply the deficiency fy prefixing ciphers. If at any time there is a remainder,... | |
 | 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),... | |
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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 in the divisor. 
