 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1896 - 300 pages
...pupil really knows that 8 and 9 equal 17, he knows also that 17 less 8 = 9, and 17 less 9 = 8. 10. Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units' in another number. The multiplicand is the number taken or repeated. The multiplier is the number that shows how... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1896 - 268 pages
...subtracting. Observe that the sum of the subtrahend and difference equals the minuend.* MULTIPLICATION. Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another number. |3ß (Multiplicand.) The multiplicand is the number 25 (Multiplier.) taken, or repeated. $180... | |
 | George Washington Hull - Arithmetic - 1896 - 152 pages
...cents a pound ? 53. What will 9 barrels of apples cost, at 5 dollars a barrel ? At 6 dollars a barrel ? The process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another is called Multiplication. The symbol x is read times or multiplied by. Thus, 8 x 5 = 40 is read 8 times... | |
 | Frank H. Hall - Arithmetic - 1897 - 264 pages
...subtracting. Observe that the sum of the subtrahend and difference equals the minuend.* MULTIPLICATION. Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another number. |36 (Multiplicand.) The multiplicand is the number 25 (Multiplier.) taken, or repeated. $180... | |
 | Silas Ellsworth Coleman - Arithmetic - 1897 - 180 pages
...2a6c-2-^. MULTIPLICATION 15. For the case where the multiplier is an integer, multiplication is denned as the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another number. Thus 3x5 = 5 + 5 + 5 (the 5 being taken as many times as there are units in the multiplier... | |
 | John Woodbridge Dickinson - Psychology - 1898 - 226 pages
...taught that subtraction is the process of taking one number from another, and that multiplication is taking one number as many times as there are units in another number. An analysis of a grammatical sentence itself, and of the actual processes of subtraction and... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1900 - 236 pages
...numbers in the examples given above ? 50. A short process of finding the sum of several equal numbers, or the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another is called Multiplication. 51. The number taken or multiplied is called the Multiplicand. 52. The number... | |
 | John Marvin Colaw, John Kelley Elkwood - Arithmetic - 1900 - 450 pages
...— but by the process of multiplication we change this to $20, that is, to 20 units of §1 each. 69. The process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another is called Multiplication. 70. The number multiplied by another — the number taken so many times —... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1900 - 250 pages
...$4620.75. and the other for $3000; what was the loss on the furn?ture? Ans. $243. ?*. 51. MuJtiplication i? the process of taking One number as many times as there are units in anothev. 52. The Miiltipficanfl is the number taken or multiplied. 53. The JHttJtiplier is the numbor... | |
 | Chandler Belden Beach, Graeme Mercer Adam - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 892 pages
...Henceforth multiplication becomes a distinct process and, from its original meaning it may be defined as the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another. This imÇ'ies that the multiplier must be an integer, he multiplicand is the number to be multiplied.... | |
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Multiplication is the process of taking one number as many times as there are units in another. 
