 | Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 1812 - 226 pages
...dividend, therefore divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient, point off fo many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed thofe in the divifor. " 2. If the places of the quotient be not fo many as the rule requires, fupply... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...decimals in the dividend, than there are in the divisor, point off аи many figures in the quotient for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor ; the want of places in the quotient beingsupplied by prefixing ciphers. But if there be more decimal... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1815 - 250 pages
...dividend, therefore divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient, point off so many places 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 defect by prefixing... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1816 - 610 pages
...Multiply 325-70 428 by -7218393, rctaiiiing only three decimals in the product. DIVISION OF DECIMALS. DIVIDE as in whole numbers ; and point off in the quotient as matiy places for decimals, as ;he decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor*. •... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1817 - 214 pages
...DIVISION OF DECIMALS. RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point ofl' as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If the places of the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1818 - 246 pages
...dividend, therefore divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient, point off so many places for decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 2. If the places in the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing... | |
 | George G. Carey - Arithmetic - 1818 - 602 pages
...1 . Divide, as in whole numbers, and point off from the right hand of the quotient as many figures for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor; if there be not so many figures in the quotient, supply the defect by adding ciphers io the left hand*.... | |
 | Nathan Daboll - Arithmetic - 1818 - 246 pages
...therefore divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient, point off so many places lor decimals, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 2. If the places in the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, supply the defect by prefixing... | |
 | John Davidson, Robert Scott (writing master) - Arithmetic - 1818 - 190 pages
...Divide as in whole numbers, and for decimals from Hie right of the quotient point off as many figures as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor ; when there are not so winy figures iu the quotient, supply the. defect by prefixing ciphers. ll2le. When... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1818 - 264 pages
...in, both the divisor and quotient ; therefore point off for decimal* in the quotient so many figures, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. 2. If the figures in the quotient are not so many as the rule, requires, supply the defect by prefixing... | |
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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. 
