 | 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
...3 is to be multiplied by 4. From what has been said, multiplication consists simply in writing down the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, and then adding up all these numbers for the product. Products. Thus, IX 1 = 1. 1X2=1 + 1 = 2. 1X3=1... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 402 pages
...a tree, he lost 3 ninths of it : how many feet did he lose ? 131. We have seen that multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 45.) If, therefore, the multiplier is only a part of a unit, it is plain we must take only a... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...in a tree, he lost 3 ninths of it : how many feet did he lose? 131. We have seen that multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 45.) On the other hand, If the multiplier is only a part of a unit, it is plain we must lake... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 354 pages
...a tree, he lost 3 ninths of it : how many feet did he lose ? 131. We have seen that multiplying by a whole number is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. (Art. 45.) If, therefore, the multiplier is only apart of a unit, it is plain we must take only apart... | |
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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. 
