 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1855 - 628 pages
...HARMONICAL PROPORTION. Three terms or quantities arc said to be in contra harmonica! proportion, when the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the second and third, as the third is to the first. CON-VERGE', [b. comtTgo. con, with, and vcrgo, to incline]. To tend or... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1855 - 356 pages
...and 8. (229.) Four quantities are said to be in harmonical proportion when the first is to the fourth as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the third and fourth. Thus, 2, 3, 4, 8 are in harmonical proportion ; for 2:8:: 3—2 : 8-4. Let a, b,... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Electronic book - 1855 - 592 pages
...PHOPORTIOX HAKMOMAL. Four quantities arc in ii .rni.ini.il proportion when the first is to the fourth as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the third and fourth. Thus 24, 10, 12, and 9 are in li.iini.nn.il proportion, because 24 : 9 : : 8 : 3.... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 398 pages
...years old ? Ans. 33554430. 9O. HARMONICAL PROGRESSION.* When three numbers are such that the first is to the third, as the difference between the first...is to the difference between the second and third, they are said to be in HARMONICAL PROPORTION ; and a series of numbers, in continued harmonical proportion,... | |
 | Horace Mann, Pliny Earle Chase - Arithmetic - 1857 - 388 pages
...500 years old? Ans. 33554430. >. HARMONICAL PROGRESSION.* When three numbers are such that the first is to the third, as the difference between the first...is to the difference between the second and third, they are said to be in HARMONICAL PROPORTION ; and a series of numbers, in continued harmonical proportion,... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1858 - 394 pages
...are said to be in harmonical proper tion when the first is to the third as the difference between tin first and second is to the difference between the second and third. Thus, 2, 3, 6 are in harmonical proportion ; for 2:6:: 3-2 : 6—3. Let a, b, c be in harmonical proportion... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard, William Downs Henkle - Algebra - 1859 - 538 pages
...: a~6 : 6~c. (4O4.) Four quantities are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the fourth, as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the third and fourth. The quantities a, 6, c, and d are in harmonica! proportion when a : d : : a~6 : c~<f.... | |
 | James B. Dodd - Algebra - 1859 - 368 pages
...6—4 : 12—6. An Harmonical Proportion consists of four terms such that the first is to the fourth as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the third and fourth. Thus a, b, c, d, are in Harmonical Proportion, if a : d :: a—b : c—d; or a :... | |
 | Theodore Strong - Algebra - 1859 - 570 pages
...the unknown letter enters one or more of four harmonicals, because the first must be to the fourth as the difference between the first and second is to the difference between the third and fourth, we easily (by 2) reduce the harmonicals to an equation. EXAMPLES. 1. Given, 3, 8,... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...other extreme segment is to the middle part. Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first...is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression ' harmonical... | |
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Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second, is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression... 
