 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1850 - 356 pages
...Multiply the two factors after the same manner as in whole numbers ; then point off, from the right of the product, as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both the factors. If there are not so many places of figures, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers.... | |
 | Calvin Tracy - 1851 - 214 pages
...From 87, and 9 tenths, take 78, and 9 hundredths. Ans. 9.81. MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS. RULE. $ 88. Multiply as in whole numbers, and point off from the product as many decimals as are equal to the decimals in both the multiplier and multiplicand. If the figures of the... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1852 - 344 pages
...12.51110 B.0LE. — Multiply as in simple numbers, and point off in the product, from the right hand, as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors ; and if there be not so many in the product, supply the deficiency by prefixing ciphers. EXAMPLES... | |
 | Mathew Wilson - 1854 - 210 pages
...Placo the factors under ench other, and multiply as in whole numbers ; then point off from the right of the product as many figures for decimals, as there are decimal places in both factors ; when the product has not so many places, supply the defect by writing ciphers before it.... | |
 | Andrew Carrick (accountant.) - Ready-reckoners - 1856 - 34 pages
...they are of no value. Multiplication is performed as in whole numbers. Point off from the right of the product as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors. When the product has not to many places, supply the deficiency by putting ciphers on the left,... | |
 | Daniel Leach - 1857 - 316 pages
...MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS. 117. RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and point off from the right of the product as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors. PROOF. Multiplication of decimals may be proved in the same manner as multiplication of whole... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1857 - 348 pages
....105 General Rule for Multiplication. — Multiply as in Simple Numbers ; point off from the right of the product as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both multiplicand and multiplier ; if there be not so many places in the product. supply the deficiency... | |
 | David Price - Arithmetic - 1858 - 264 pages
...under the right-hand figures of the multiplicand, and multiply as before ; point off on the right of the product as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors ; if you have not enough, prefix ciphers to the product. PROOF. — As before. EXAMPLES. 65.... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1859 - 348 pages
...the following RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors. NOTES. 1. If there be not as many figures in the product as there are decimals in both factors,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 444 pages
...the following RULE. Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors. NOTES. — 1. If there be not as many figures in the product as there are decimals in both... | |
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Multiply as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the product point off as many figures for decimals as there are decimal places in both factors. 
