 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1844 - 358 pages
...s & 4x 3 = 4 4 4 I2 Product. OPERATION. 5x 3 = . 5 5 5 15 Product MULTIPLICATION OP SIMPLE NUMBERS. We see from the above examples, that any product may...may any product be found ? What may multiplication bo considered 1 § 2§8. In the example in which 5 was multiplied by 3, the product was 15. Now, had... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1844 - 356 pages
...that the product of 5 by 3 is equal to 15, the number which arises from adding three 5's together. We see from the above examples, that any product may...the numbers together. MULTIPLICATION is therefore a slwrt method of addition. Q. How may any product be found ? What may multiplication be considered ?... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Algebra - 1844 - 266 pages
...factors, in multiplication, is always to be considered as a number. The operation consists in repealing the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. How then can a line, a surface, or a solid, become a multiplier 1 To explain this it will be necessary... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1844 - 666 pages
...times the multiplicand is to be repeated, is called the multiplier. The number arising from repeating the multiplicand as} many times as there are units in the multiplier, is calle the product. The multiplicand and multiplier are called factors, o producers of the product.... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1844 - 394 pages
...operations included unii.;r addition and subtraction. MULTIPLICATION. 88. MULTIPLICATION is repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Thus : 1. If a is to be multiplied by b, it must be taken as many times as there are units in b, and... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 300 pages
...NUMBERS. 159* MULTIPLICATION of Compound Numbers, like that of simple numbers, consists in repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Multiply £11 2s. 3d. by 2. Placing the multiplier under the OPERATION. lowest unit of the multiplicand,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1845 - 382 pages
...V MULTIPLICATION. 40. ALGEBRAIC multiplication has the same object as arithmetical, viz., to repeat the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. The multiplicand and multiplier are called factors. It is proved in Arithmetic (see Davies' Arithmetic,... | |
 | Francis Henney Smith - Arithmetic - 1845 - 710 pages
...NUMBERS. 159* MULTIPLICATION of Compound Numbers, like that of simple numbers, consists in repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Multiply £14 2s. 3d. by 2. Placing the multiplier under the OPERATION. lowest unit of the multiplicand,... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Algebra - 1845 - 308 pages
...multiplier. The product will be +ab. It will be +, because multiplication is but a short method of adding up the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. But if +a be added together as many times as there are units in b, since the sum of any number of positive... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1845 - 310 pages
...will consider the nature of multiplication, the real object sought for. It is, to obtain the amount of the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. Now, suppose we wish to multiply any number by 37, which is not a composite number, we miiy consider... | |
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We have seen that multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. 
