 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...manner as whole numbers. 5. The denominator of a decimal, though never expressed, is always the unit 1, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. 6. To read decimals requires two numerations; first, from units, to find the name of the denominator,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 236 pages
...manner as whole numbers. 5. The denominator of a decimal, though never expressed, is always the unit 1, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. 6. To read decimals requires two numerations ; first, from units, to find the name of the denominator,... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...manner as u'hole numbers. 5. The denominator of a decimal, though never expressed, is always the unit 1, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. 6. To read decimals requires two numerations; first, from units, to find the name of the denominator,... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1892 - 440 pages
...diminishes the value of the decimal tenfold. 3. The denominator of a decimal, when expressed, is 1 with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. 172. In expressions of the currency of the United States, the cents, mills, etc., may be read as decimals... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1895 - 200 pages
...denominator is 10, 100, 1 000, or 1 with one or more ciphers annexed. As its denominator is always 1 with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal, the numerator only may be written, with the decimal point. 98. In Arts. 18-20 decimals have been written... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1895 - 398 pages
...operation in Common Fractions is equally applicable to Decimals. 159. The denominator of a decimal is 1 with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. 160. For Addition and Subtraction of Decimals, see pages 12-27. MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS. 161. Written... | |
 | Military art and science - 1897 - 354 pages
...the following principles are true : "First. That the denominator of every decimal is the unit one, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal or numerator. " Second. That the unit of any place is ten times as great as the unit of the next place... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 868 pages
...numbers do not express integers, is intimated by the point to the left; and the denominators always 1, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. A cipher is prefixed to 19, because otherwise it would read PS if it stood for ,'A. The expression... | |
 | Theodore Lucas, Frank Duncan Graham, Nehemiah Hawkins - Marine engineering - 1918 - 940 pages
...to an equivalent fraction. NOTE. — The denominator of a decimal fraction is understood, and is I with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal ; thus Form of Form of common fraction. decimal fraction. T7ff is written .7 and is read seven tenths.... | |
 | John Rome Battle - Lubrication and lubricants - 1920 - 1280 pages
...right in ten-fold parts. The denominator of a decimal, though never expressed, is always the unit (1), with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. Write the decimal the same as a whole number, placing ciphers where necessary to give each significant... | |
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The denominator of a decimal, though never expressed, is always the unit, 1, with as many ciphers annexed as there are figures in the decimal. 
