Decimals increase from right to left, and decrease from left to right, in a tenfold ratio; and therefore they may be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided in the same manner as whole numbers. A Business Arithmetic - Page 641893Full view - About this book
| Oscar F. Williams - Arithmetic - 1894 - 364 pages
...2, 2, 2, and 3. 122. To Divide by 10, or any one of its powers. Since by the decimal system, numbers increase in value from right to left and decrease from left to right in a tenfold ratio, it follows that to cut off from the right of a number one place, divides the number by 10, two places... | |
| Bothwell Graham - Arithmetic - 1895 - 240 pages
...device of place ; and the place values, answering to the relation of the orders of units, will increase from right to left, and decrease from left to right, in a tenfold ratio. 206. The Decimal Point is a period placed to the left of the tenths' place to determine the decimal... | |
| Education - 1895 - 850 pages
...fundamentals really are. The teacher must then plan to lead the child to know: 1. That numbers increase from right to left and decrease from left to right in a tenfold ratio. 8. That in the process of addition he thinks two numbers into one equivalent number. Or, He thinks... | |
| Education - 1897 - 876 pages
...diagonal of one side. 7. In decimals as well as in whole numbers, the different orders of units increase from right to left, and decrease from left to right, in a tenfold ratio. In dealing with decimals, or fractions, or units, only numbers of the tame kind or denomination can... | |
| Education - 1895 - 812 pages
...fundamentals really are. The teacher must then plan to lead the child to know : 1. That numbers increase from right to left and decrease from left to right in a tenfold ratio. 2. That in the process of addition he thinks two numbers into one equivalent number. Or, He thinks two... | |
| John Henry Moore - Business mathematics - 1904 - 404 pages
...DIVISION 114. To divide any number by 10, 100, 1000, etc. By the decimal system of notation numbers increase in value from right to left and decrease from left to right in a tenfold ratio ; hence to divide a number by 10, 100, 1000, etc. : From the right in the dividend point off an many... | |
| John Henry Moore, George Washington Miner - Business mathematics - 1906 - 476 pages
...successive places a figure may occupy in a number are called orders of units. 7. Orders of units increase from right to left and decrease from left to right in a tenfold ratio. Therefore, 8. The Arabic system of notation is properly called a decimal system, from the Latin decem,... | |
| Orville Marcellus Powers - Business mathematics - 1906 - 384 pages
...containing an integer and decimal is called a mixed decimal. 115. Decimal fractions like simple numbers increase in value from right to left and decrease from left to right. The first figure on the right of the decimal point is called tenths, the second hundredths, the third... | |
| Orville Marcellus Powers - Business mathematics - 1906 - 384 pages
...containing an integer and decimal is called a mixed decimal. 115. Decimal fractions like simple numbers increase in value from right to left and decrease from left to right. The first figure on the right of the decimal point is called tenths, the second hundredths, the third... | |
| James S. Sweet - Business mathematics - 1907 - 268 pages
...Mixed Decimal consists of a whole number and a decimal. Thus, 4.5, 6.25, 27.375. 181. Decimals increase from right to left and decrease from left to right in a ten fold ratio, the same as whole numbers. 182. Decimals are read the same as decimal fractions. Thus,... | |
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