 | Daniel O'Gorman - Ready-reckoners - 1856 - 186 pages
...number of figures without intermediate lines. SIMPLE DIVISION. CASE 1. DIVISION is the finding how often one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend ; the number you divide by, the divisor ; the number found, the quotient. RULE. — Set down your dividend, to the... | |
 | James Stewart Eaton - Arithmetic - 1857 - 376 pages
...7 wires ; how many wires are there in the cable ? Ans. 133. § 6. DIVISION. DIVISION is the process of finding how many times one number is contained...divided is called the dividend ; the number by which to divide, the divisor ; the result, the quotient ; if anything is left after dividing, the remainder.... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1857 - 328 pages
...contains another. As in Multiplication two numbers are required to perform the operation, so in Division. The number to be divided is called the Dividend / the number by which you divide is called the Divisor. TJie Dividend is to be regarded as the product of two factors, of... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1857 - 342 pages
...contains another. As in Multiplication two numbers are required to perform the operation, so in Division. The number to be divided is called the Dividend ; the number by which you itiyj^, is called the Divisor. The Dividend is to be regarded as the product of two factors, of... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1859 - 168 pages
...contained in another, or the process of separating a num. ber into any proposed number of equal parts. The number to be divided is called the dividend ; the number by which we divida is called the divisor ; and the result, or number produced by th» division, is called the quotient... | |
 | Edward Liddell (writer on arithmetic.) - 1860 - 160 pages
...to leave 59407869 for a remainder ? SIMPLE DIVISION. 16. Division is an operation by which we find how many times one number is contained in another....to be divided is called the Dividend ; the number we divide by is called the Divisor: the result of the operation is called the Quotient. The quotient... | |
 | Warren Colburn - Arithmetic - 1858 - 208 pages
...or separate the larger number into as many equal parts as there are units in the smaller number. 13. The number to be divided is called the dividend; the number by which we divide, the divisor ; and the result, the quotient. If anything is left after the division, it is called the... | |
 | Robert Johnston (F.R.G.S.) - 1860 - 188 pages
...great utility in many subsequent operations. DIVISION. 35. DIVISION shows how often one number contains another. The number to be divided, is called the DIVIDEND ; the number by which the dividend is to be divided, is called the DIVISOR ; and the result or answer the QUOTIENT. When... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 444 pages
...what was the total value of this gold coin ? Ans. $29,507,732. DIVISION. 1O3. Division is the process of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The Dividend is the number to he divided. The Divisor is the number to divide by. lOS. The Quotient is... | |
 | Edward Liddell (writer on arithmetic.) - 1861 - 192 pages
...to leave 59407869 for a remainder ? SIMPLE DIVISION. 16. Division is an operation by which we find how many times one number is contained in another....to be divided is called the Dividend ; the number we divide by is called the Divisor: the result of the operation is called the Quotient. The quotient... | |
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DIVISION we find how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided, is called the DIVIDEND ; the number by which to divide is called the DIVISOR; the number of times the dividend contains the divisor is called the QUOTIENT. 
