 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 336 pages
...RULE. — Separate the given number into as many periods as possible of three figures each, by placing a point over the unit figure, and every third figure beyond the place of units. Find the greatest cube in the left-hand period, and place its root on • the right. Subtract the cube,... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 332 pages
...RULE. — Separate the given number into as many periods as possible of three figures each, by placing a point over the unit figure, and every third figure beyond the place of units. Find the greatest cube in the left-hand period, and place its root on the right. Subtract the cube,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1860 - 1020 pages
...of the columns may increase in the same order. In column (in) write the given number, and divide it into periods of three figures* each, by putting a point over the place of units, and also over every third figure, from thence to the left, in whole numbers, and to... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1861 - 338 pages
...RULE. — Separate the given number into as many periods as possible of three figures each, by placing a point over the unit figure, and every third figure beyond the place of units. Multiply the divisor by the last figure of the root, and write the product under the dividend; then... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1863 - 600 pages
...of the columns may increase in the same order. In column (in) write the given number, and divide it into periods of three figures each, by putting a point over the place of units, and also over every third figure, from thence to the left in whole numbers, and to... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1871 - 350 pages
...RULE. — Separate the given number into as many periods as possible of three figures each, by placing a point over the unit figure, and every third figure beyond the place of units. Find the greatest cube in the left-hand period, and place its root on the right. Subtract the cube,... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Algebra - 1888 - 868 pages
...many. Hence for the extraction of the cube root of a decimal, we have the following RULE. Separate the given number into periods of three figures each, by putting a point over every third figure, beginning at the units' place and continuing both to the right and to the left... | |
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RULE. •f- 1 . Separate the given number into periods of three figures each, by putting a point over the unit figure, and every third figure beyond the place of units. 2. Find the greatest cube in the left hand period, and put its root in the quotient.... 
