 ... accurate than the grocer's. But what would a mathematician mean, if he made the same statement ? He would mean this : Suppose the mass of the standard pound to be represented by a length, say a foot, measured on a certain line ; so that half a pound...  Macmillan's Magazine - Página 4911872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1921 - 472 páginas
...measured on a certain line ; so that half a pound would be represented by six inches, and so on. And let the difference between the mass of the sugar and that of the standard pound be drawn upon the same line .!o the same scale. Then, if that difference were magnified... | |
 | 1873 - 800 páginas
...exact numerical laws. But let us just consider for another moment what this means. The word " exact " has a practical and a theoretical meaning. When a...difference between the mass of the sugar and that of the pound-weight he employs is too small to be detected by his scales. If a chemist had made a special... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 454 páginas
...exact numerical laws. But let us just consider for another moment what this means. "The word 'exact' has a practical and a theoretical meaning. When a...and says it is exactly a pound, he means that the differsnce between the mass of the sugar and that of the pound weight he employs is too small to be... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1895 - 452 páginas
...measured on a certain line ; so that half a pound would be represented by six inches, and so on. And let the difference between the mass of the sugar and that of the standard pound be drawn upon the same line to the same scale. Then, if that difference were magnified... | |
 | William Kingdon Clifford - 1901 - 438 páginas
...measured on a certain line ; so that half a pound would be represented by six inches, and so on. And let the difference between the mass of the sugar and that of the standard pound be drawn upon the same line to the same scale. Then, if that difference were magnified... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1911 - 488 páginas
...measured on a certain line ; so that half a pound would be represented by six inches, and so on. And let the difference between the mass of the sugar and that of the standard pound be drawn upon the same line to the same scale. Then, if that difference were magnified... | |
 | Gustav Spiller - 1921 - 464 páginas
...measured on a certain line ; so that half a pound would be represented by six inches, and so on. And let the difference between the mass of the sugar and that of the standard pound be drawn upon the same line to the same scale. Then, if that difference were magnified... | |
 | 1873 - 1098 páginas
...measured on a certain line ; so that half a pound would be represented by six inches, and so on, and let the difference between the mass of the sugar and that of the standard pound be drawn upon tho same line to the same scale. Then if that difference were magnified... | |
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