 | Beriah Stevens - Arithmetic - 1822 - 436 pages
...position by the first error. 4. If tHe errors be alike, that is both too small, or both too great, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer required. 5. If the errors be unlike ; that is, one too email,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...position by the second error, and the second position by the first error. Then, If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. But if the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the product* by... | |
 | Leonard Pierce - Arithmetic - 1823 - 170 pages
...supposed number by the first error. If the errors be alike, that is, both too large, or both too small, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be (he answer ; but if the errors be unlike, that is, one too large and the other... | |
 | John Penrose (teacher of arithmetic.) - Arithmetic - 1824 - 320 pages
...into, or by the contrary position, and if the errors are alike, or both marked witli the same sign, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors ; but, if the errors are unlike, divide the snm of the products by the sum of-the errors, for the answer. OR, Having assumed... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - Arithmetic - 1825 - 224 pages
...errors are both of the same kind, ie both too great or both too little. 5. If the errors are alike divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the product will be the true number or answer. But if the errors are one too great and the other... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1826 - 176 pages
...number by the first error ; and, if the errors be alike, (that is, both too great, or both too small,) divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors; but if unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sum of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer.... | |
 | William Slocomb - 1828 - 160 pages
...first error. k 4. If the errojrs be alike, that is both greater, or both less than the given number, divide the difference of the products by the difference...the errors; but if the errors be unlike, divide the sum of the products by the sura of the errors; and in either case the quotient will be the answer.... | |
 | Daniel Parker - Arithmetic - 1828 - 358 pages
...first position by the last error, and the last position by the first error. 4. If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 5. If the errors are unlike, divide the sum of the products by... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...question. 2. Find how much the results differ from the result in the question. 4. If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 3. Multiply the first false position by the last error, and ''... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1830 - 188 pages
...errors are both of the same kind ; ie both too great, or both too little. 5. If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the product will be the true number or answer. But if the errors are one too great and the other... | |
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If the errors are alike, divide the difference of the products by the difference of the errors, and the quotient will be the answer. 
