 | Webster Wells - 1906 - 484 páginas
...positive integer or a positive fraction. That is, to multiply a number by a positive integer is to add the multiplicand as many times' as there are units in the multiplier. For example, to multiply — 4 by 3, we add — 4 three times. Thus, (-4) x(+3) = (-4) + (-4) + (-4)=-12.... | |
 | Joseph Victor Collins - 1908 - 442 páginas
...Multiplication. The definition of multiplication often given is that multiplication is the process of taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. We may picture this process by thinking of a person picking out from a basket containing eggs six at... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson McEvoy - 1908 - 472 páginas
...division. The problems are similar to those in 1A. Problems in multiplication are solved by writing the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier and by adding. Problems in division are solved as in 1A by counting. 2B and 3A.—Simple problems solved... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1908 - 262 páginas
...positive integer or a positive fraction. That is, to multiply a number by a positive integer is to add the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. For example, to multiply —4 by 3, we add — 4 three times. Thus, (-4)X( + 3) = (-4) + (-4) + (-4)... | |
 | Webster Wells - 1908 - 456 páginas
...positive integer or a positive fraction. That is, to multiply a number by a positive integer is to add the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. For example, to multiply —4 by 3, we add — 4 three times. Thus, (_4)x( + 3) = (-4) + (-4) + (-4)... | |
 | George Soulé - 1910 - 1042 páginas
...result is decreasing. This is evident from the fact that multiplication is the process of repeating the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier, and, therefore, when the multiplier is less than a unit, the multiplicand will be repeated only a part... | |
 | William James Milne - 1911 - 360 páginas
...multiplication, the number multiplied. Multiplication. When the multiplier is a positive integer, the process of taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. In general, the process of finding a number that is obtained from the multiplicand just as the multiplier... | |
 | Joseph Victor Collins - 1911 - 330 páginas
...Multiplication. The definition of multiplication often given is that multiplication is the process of taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. We may picture this process by thinking of a person picking out from a basket containing eggs six at... | |
 | Nicomachus (of Gerasa.), Frank Egleston Robbins, Louis Charles Karpinski - 1926 - 348 páginas
...the only variation from the Nicomachean material appears to be the definition of multiplication as "taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier." In the eleventh century appeared also treatises on an ancient arithmetical game, rithmomachia. 2 The... | |
 | Joseph Ray - 1857 - 340 páginas
...-4ns. 50. 25. 10gX9 = Ans. CASE II. ART. 152. To multiply a whole number by a fraction. Multiplying by a whole number, is taking the multiplicand as many...there are units in the multiplier. Multiplying by a fraction, or part of a unit, is taking a part of the multiplicand. Therefore, Multiplying by J, is... | |
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We have seen that multiplying by a whole number, is taking the multiplicand as many times as there are units in the multiplier. 
