 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1847 - 368 pages
...of finding how many times one ^number is contained in anotlter. It is a short method of subtraction. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number expressing how many times the dividend contains the... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1847 - 368 pages
...of finding how many times one number is contained in another. It is a short method of subtraction. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number expressing how many times the dividend contains the... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1848 - 434 pages
...Process of finding how many times one number is contained in another, .is called DIVISION. The number to be divided, is called the dividend. The number...which we divide, is called the divisor. The number obtained by division, or the answer to the question, is called the quotient. It shows how many times... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1849 - 346 pages
...DIVISION teaches the method of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by...The sign usually employed to indicate division is -K Thus, 12-^-3, denotes that 12 is to be divided by 3. By using this sign we may form the following... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1850 - 364 pages
...DIVISION teaches the method of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by...The sign usually employed to indicate division is — . Thus, 12 + 3, denotes that 12 is to be divided by 3. By using this sign we may form the following... | |
 | George Roberts Perkins - Arithmetic - 1851 - 356 pages
...DIVISION teaches the method of finding how many times one number is contained in another. The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by...The sign usually employed to indicate division is -<-. Thus, 12-^3, denotes that 12 is to be divided by 3. By using this sign we may form the following... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1848 - 250 pages
...the product of two factors, and one of them given, Division teaches the method of finding the other. The number by which we divide, is called the divisor; the number to be divided, is called the dividend; the number of times the divisor is contained in the dividend,... | |
 | Thomas Grainger Hall - 1853 - 268 pages
...how many times the former is contained in the latter. The operation is called Division. The number to be divided is called the Dividend. The number by...divide is called the Divisor. The number of times it is contained in the Dividend is called the Quotient. If the- number be not contained an exact number... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1853 - 180 pages
...number to be divided is called the dividend, the number which it is to be divided by, the divisor, and the number of times which the dividend contains the divisor, is called the quotient; and also, that what is left not divisible at the end of the operation, U called the remainder. Then... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - Arithmetic - 1854 - 356 pages
...5 from 20 as many times as possible, thus changing the 20 to 15, to 10, to 5, and to 0. The number to be divided is called the dividend ; the number by which we divide is called the divisor ; and the result of the division is called the quotient. Thus, if it be required to find how many times... | |
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The number to be divided is called the dividend. The number by which we divide is called the divisor. The number which shows how many times the divisor is contained in the dividend is called the quotient. 
