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Page 22 - Write the divisor at the left of the dividend with a curved line between them. Find how many times the divisor is contained in the fewest figures on the left hand of the dividend that will contain it, and write the quotient on the right.
Page 22 - ... the next figure of the dividend. Find how many times the divisor is contained in the number thus formed ; write the figure denoting it at the right hand of the former quotient figure.
Page 21 - The dividend is the number to be divided. The divisor is the number by which we divide.
Page 4 - Arabic notation, so called from its having been made known through the Arabs, employs in expressing numbers ten characters or figures, viz. : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, cipher. The first nine are...
Page 22 - Subtract this product from the figures above it ; to the remainder bring down the next figure of the dividend, and divide as before, until all the figures of the dividend are brought down. 5. If, at any time, after...
Page 14 - Multiplication, in Algebra, is the process of taking one quantity as many times as there are units in another.
Page 11 - RULE. I. Write the subtrahend under the minuend, so that units of the same denomination shall stand under each other.
Page 12 - Begin with the units of the lowest order to subtract, and proceed to the highest, writing each remainder under the line in its proper place. 3. If any term of the minuend is less than the corresponding term of the subtrahend, add ten to it and then subtract ; but consider that the next term of the minuend has been diminished by one. Proof. Add the remainder to the subtrahend : the sum ought to equal the minuend.
Page 25 - ... until the quotient is a prime number. The several divisors and the last quotient will be the prime factors required.