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Subtract the number of decimal places in the divisor from the number of decimal places in the dividend, and point off as many decimal places in the quotient as there are units in the remainder thus found.

Elementary Science Applied to Sanitation and Plumbers' Work - Page 37
by A. Herring-Shaw - 1910 - 264 pages
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The Grammar-school Arithmetic: Being Book Second of the Analysis of Written ...

Stoddard A. Felter - Arithmetic - 1868 - 368 pages

...division, making the number of decimal places in the dividend at least equal to those th the divisor. Jl. Subtract the number of decimal places in the divisor...the number of decimal places in the dividend, and the remainder will denote the number of decimal places in the quotient. HI. Should there not be as...

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