 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...of the significant figures of the decimal. Thus, -&, or .6, is the same aa Jfc, or .60. 4. 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... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1892 - 428 pages
...the significant figures of the decimal. Thus, T6ff, or .6, is the same as '1^, or .60. 4. 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... | |
 | Asa Hollister Craig - Examinations - 1897 - 538 pages
...as many ciphers annexed as are equal to the number of figures in the decimal or numerator. 60. They increase from right to left, and decrease from left to right, in a tenfold ratio. 59. Its place from the decimal point. 61. A pure decimal consists of a decimal only... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 850 pages
...these 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.... | |
 | Bothwell Graham - Arithmetic - 1895 - 240 pages
...the 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... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 876 pages
...the 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... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 812 pages
...these 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.... | |
 | John Henry Moore, George Washington Miner - Business mathematics - 1906 - 466 pages
...The 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... | |
 | James S. Sweet - Business mathematics - 1907 - 268 pages
...180. A 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.... | |
 | George Soulé - Business mathematics - 1910 - 1042 pages
...OF DECIMALS. 444. Addition of Decimals is finding the sura of two or more decimals. Since decimals increase from right to left, and decrease from left to right in a ten-fold ratio as do simple whole numbers, they may be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided... | |
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The units or denominations of United States money increase from right to left, and decrease from left to right, in the same manner as do the units of the several orders in simple numbers ; and may, therefore, be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided... 
