| James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 440 pages
...number ? MULTIPLICATION OP FRACTIONS. 209. We have seen that multiplying by a whole number, is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 82.) On the other hand, If the multiplier is only a part of a unit, it is plain we must take... | |
| Henry G C. Smith - 1863 - 200 pages
...product of the denominators the denominator of the product. In multiplying by an integer we repeat the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier ; in multiplying by a fraction we take that part of the multiplicand which is denoted by the multiplier.... | |
| Charles Davies - Mathematics - 1867 - 186 pages
...the definition. § 122. In Multiplication, if we define the operation to be, the process of taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, we prove the operation by showing that the result fulfils this condition. § 123. So, in Division,... | |
| Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 358 pages
...CASE II. ART. 152. To multiply a whok number by a fraction. Multiplying by a whole number, is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Multiplying by a fraction, or part of a unit, is taking a part of the multiplicand. Therefore, Multiplying... | |
| David Henry Cruttenden - 1869 - 336 pages
...make, do, produce. 122 PRODUCT. — MULTIPLICATION TABLE OF 0. twice ? The number, found by taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, is called the Product,* which, literally, means that which is brought from; so that — PRODUCT is... | |
| James Bates Thomson - 1875 - 392 pages
...; Multiplying by 2 is taking the multiplicand twice ; and Multiplying by any whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. NOTES. — i. The term multiplication, from the Latin mvltiplico, multus, many, and plico, to fold,... | |
| Education - 1877 - 682 pages
...the greater. Next consider Multiplient ion. And first, multiplying by a positive quantity is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, and does not change its sign. For example, 7ax3 means Ta taken three times, and equals 21a; so —... | |
| Popular educator - 1880 - 852 pages
...kind as tho multiplicand. 68. / ' u plain, therefore, that multiplying by a whole nvmber is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Thus multiplying a by 1, U taking the multiplicand once, as a. Multiplying a by 2, is taking the multiplicand... | |
| George Soulé - Arithmetic - 1888 - 568 pages
...unit, the result is decreasing. This is evident from the fact that multiplication is the process of repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, ami, therefore, when the multiplier is less than a unit, the multiplicand will be repeated only apart... | |
| Warren H. Sadler - 1888 - 426 pages
...denotes how many repetitions of the addend are required ; and the Product is the result obtained by repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. REM. 2. — The multiplicand and multiplier are called factors of the product. REM. 3. — The Sign... | |
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