The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, in Which the Principles of Arithmetic Are Explained in ... Systems of Mensuration, Guaging, Geometry, - Tapa blanda

Greenleaf, Benjamin

 
9781528118774: The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, in Which the Principles of Arithmetic Are Explained in ... Systems of Mensuration, Guaging, Geometry,

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Numeration teaches to express the value Of numbers either by words or characters.

The numbers in Arithmetic are expressed by the following ten characters, or Arabic numeral figures, which the Moors introduced into Europe about nine hundred years ago; viz. 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, 0 cipher, or nothing.

The first nine are called significant figures, as distinguished from the cipher, which is of itself insignificant.
Besides this value of those figures, they have also another.

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Excerpt from The National Arithmetic, on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, in Which the Principles of Arithmetic Are Explained in a Perspicuous and Familiar Manner; Containing Also Practical Systems of Mensuration, Guaging, Geometry, and Book-Keeping

A few of the rules, which some arithmeticians of the pres ent day have laid aside as useless, the author has thought best to retain; as Practice, Progression, Position, Permuta tiou, etc. For though some of these rules are not of much practical utility, yet, as they are well adapted -to improve the reasoning were, they ought not, in the author's judg ment, to be lai aside by any, who wish to become thorough arithmeticians.

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