 | 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... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1838 - 218 pages
....041287 Product 1762.35 265.355 28.399112 768.32 .000855 .016004 .00008591 DIVISION OF DECIMALS. HULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient, separate as many figures for decimals as the decimal figures of the dividend exceed those of the divisor.... | |
 | 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
...examples and remarks are sufficient to establish the following RULE. In the division of decimal fractions, divide as in whole numbers, and 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... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Griffiths - 1839 - 348 pages
...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... | |
 | Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 674 pages
...DECIMALS. Divide as in whole numbers, observing to point off as many decimal places in the quotient, as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor. If there be not as many figures in the quotient as are equal to that excess, supply the deficiency... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1852 - 600 pages
...650510 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 divisorWhen the places of the quotient are not so many as the rule requires, let the defect be supplied... | |
 | Joseph Bateman - Excise tax - 1852 - 376 pages
...sum of these partial products point off the assigned number DECIMAL AND MENTAL ARITHMETIC. [CHAP. I. decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor ; or in other words to sce that the divisor and of decimal places. The example in the margin, which... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Engineering - 1853 - 318 pages
...2508.92806. 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 ; but if there are not so many places, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. EXAMPLE.— Divide... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1853 - 622 pages
...120. RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and point off from the right of the quotient as many figures for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor ; and if there be not as many, make the number equal by prefixing ciphers to the quotient. PROOF. Division... | |
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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. 
