| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1866 - 184 pages
...decimal, or a mixed number of integers and decimals, can be multiplied by 10, 100, 1000, etc., by removing the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier. Prefixing a Cipher in a decimal expression, di vides the decimal by 10,... | |
| Thomas Percy Hudson - Arithmetic - 1866 - 268 pages
...from the preceding explanations, that to multiply a decimal 'by any power of 10, we need only move the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier. For example : — -34567 X 1oo is 34-567. For -34567 X 1oo = f«& X 1oo... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1888 - 480 pages
...NUMBERS. To change a metrit number from a unit of a higher to a unit of a lower denomination. Move the decimal point as many places to the right as there are O's following the 1 in the number expressing the units of the lower denomination that it takes to make... | |
| John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1868 - 428 pages
...3V> change a metric number from a unit of a hiyticr to a unit of a lower denomination, Rule. — Move the decimal point as many places to the right as there are O's following the 1 in the number expressing the units of the lower denomination that it takes to make... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1868 - 468 pages
...denomination. Since the multiplier is always 10, 100, 1000, &c., the operation is performed by removing the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier, annexing ciphers when necessary. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Reduce 3M32.58... | |
| Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1869 - 332 pages
...dollar mark and the decimal point. For, multiplying by 10, 100, etc., has the same effect, removing the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier (Art. 30). Examples. 4. In $162 how many mills ? Ans. 162000 mills. 5. In... | |
| Adolf Sonnenschein - 1870 - 276 pages
...two places; by 1000, three places, and so on. Rule : To multiply a decimal by any power of 10, shift the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier, adding ciphers if necessary. Thus : 7-63x100000 = 763000. EXERCISE VI. By... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson, Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1871 - 384 pages
...denomination. Since the multiplier is always 10, 100, 1000, &c., the operation is performed by removing the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers ia the multiplier, annexing ciphers •when necessary. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Reduce "M... | |
| Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - Arithmetic - 1873 - 362 pages
...dollar mark and the decimal point. For, multiplying by 10, 100, etc., has the same effect as removing the decimal point as many places to the right as there are ciphers in the multiplier (Art. 30). 4. In $162 how many mills ? Ans. 162000 mills. 5. In $1.62 how... | |
| Malcolm MacVicar - Arithmetic - 1876 - 412 pages
...obtain the following rule for finding a number when a decimal part of it is given : 503. RULE. — Move the decimal point as many places to the right as there are places in the given decimal, annexing ciphers if necessary, and divide the result by the, number expressed... | |
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