 | Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 674 pages
...called a negative quantity. x into or by Is the sign of multiplication, and denotes that the numbers, or quantities between which it is placed, are to be multiplied together, thus 7x8, signifies 7 multiplied by 8, and axbxc, shews that the quantities represented by ab and c are... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1852 - 408 pages
...signs. ART. 14. The sign X, is termed the sign of multiplication. It is read into, or multiplied by, and denotes that the quantities between which it is placed are to be multiplied together. A dot, or period, is sometimes used to denote multiplication. Thus, <zXi, and ab, each denote that... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Algebra - 1848 - 250 pages
...— d have unlike signs. ART. 25. The sign of multiplication, X. is read into, or multiplied by. It denotes that the quantities between which it is placed, are to be multiplied together. A dot or point is sometimes used instead of the sign X- Thus, aX6 and a.6, both mean that 6 is to be... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - Arithmetic - 1852 - 228 pages
...read 9 minus 6, or 9 less 6. X The sign of multiplication, called times, or multiplied by, signifies that the quantities between which it is placed are to be multiplied together. 7X6 means that 7 and 6 are to be multiplied together, and may be read either as 7 times 6, or 7 multiplied... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 476 pages
...c, means that a is equal to b plus c, or that a is equal to the sum of b and c. 9. The sign x (into) denotes that the quantities between which it is placed are to be multiplied together. A period, or full point, is ofien used instead of X , and it is usual in algebra to write the quantities... | |
 | John Benjamin Henck - Railroad engineering - 1854 - 270 pages
...— indicates that the quantity before which it is placed is to be subtracted. The sign X indicates that the quantities between which it is placed are to be multiplied together. The sign -:- or : indicates that the first of two quantities between which it is placed is to be divided... | |
 | John Budge - Mining engineering - 1854 - 248 pages
...which it is placed is to be taken from the greater, x into, the sign of multiplication ; signifying that the quantities between which it is placed are to be multiplied together. -T-by, the sign of division; signifying that the former of the two quantities between which it is placed... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1857 - 452 pages
...are equal to 1 foot. 19. The sign of addition, an erect cross, -[-, is readjo/as, and, or added to, and denotes that the quantities between which it is placed are to be added together. Thus, 8 -f- 6 signifies that 6 is to be added to 8. 20. The sign of subtraction, a... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 186 pages
...as 12 inches = 1 foot. 2. The sign of addition, an erect cross, -(-, is read plus, and, or added to, and denotes that the quantities between which it is placed are to be added together ; as 4 -f- 6 equals 10. 3. The sign of subtraction, a short horizontal line, — , is... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1858 - 458 pages
...are equal to 1 foot. 19. The sign of addition, an erect cross, -(-, is renAplus, and, or added to, and denotes that the quantities between which it is placed are to be added together. Thus, 8 -f- 6 signifies that 6 is to be added to 8. 20. The sign of subtraction, a... | |
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It denotes that the quantities between which it is placed, are to be multiplied together. 
