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The Elements of Arithmetic ... in which Decimal and Integral Arithmetic are ... - Page 18
by Pliny Earle Chase - 1844
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The American Intellectual Arithmetic: Containing an Extensive Collection of ...

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,...
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Arithmetic for school and college use. With a chapter on the metric system

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...
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Stoddard's Complete Arithmetic: Being the New Practical Arithmetic of the ...

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...
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Practical Arithmetic, Embracing the Science of Numbers and the Art of ...

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...
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The Progressive Higher Arithmetic: For Schools, Academies, and Mercantile ...

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...
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New Practical Arithmetic in which the Science and Its Applications are ...

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...
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The science and art of arithmetic, by A. Sonnenschein and H.A. Nesbitt ...

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...
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Robinson's Progressive Practical Arithmetic: Containing the Theory of ...

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...
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New Practical Arithmetic: In which the Science and Its Applications are ...

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...
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A Complete Arithmetic, Oral and Written

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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