Elements of Arithmetic

About this eBook

Author

De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871

Title

Elements of arithmetic

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Walton and Maberly,1858.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QA: Science: Mathematics

Subject

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68662

Release Date

August 1, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ELEMENTS OF ARITHMETIC.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.BOOK I. — SECTION I. NUMERATION.
6. 6.SECTION II. ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION.
7. 7.SECTION III. MULTIPLICATION. — SECTION IV. DIVISION.
8. 8.SECTION V. FRACTIONS.
9. 9.SECTION VI. DECIMAL FRACTIONS.
10. 10.SECTION VII. ON THE EXTRACTION OF THE SQUARE ROOT.
11. 11.SECTION VIII. ON THE PROPORTION OF NUMBERS.
12. 12.SECTION IX. ON PERMUTATIONS AND COMBINATIONS.
13. 13.BOOK II. — SECTION I. WEIGHTS, MEASURES, &C. — SECTION II. RULE OF THREE . — SECTION III. INTEREST, ETC.
14. 14.APPENDIX TO
15. 15.I. ON THE MODE OF COMPUTING.
16. 16.APPENDIX II. ON VERIFICATION BY CASTING OUT NINES AND ELEVENS.
17. 17.APPENDIX III. ON SCALES OF NOTATION.
18. 18.APPENDIX IV. ON THE DEFINITION OF FRACTIONS.
19. 19.APPENDIX V. ON CHARACTERISTICS.
20. 20.APPENDIX VI. ON DECIMAL MONEY.
21. 21.APPENDIX VII. ON THE MAIN PRINCIPLE OF BOOK-KEEPING.
22. 22.APPENDIX VIII. ON THE REDUCTION OF FRACTIONS TO OTHERS OF NEARLY EQUAL VALUE.
23. 23.APPENDIX IX. ON SOME GENERAL PROPERTIES OF NUMBERS.
24. 24.APPENDIX X. ON COMBINATIONS.
25. 25.APPENDIX XI. ON HORNER’S METHOD OF SOLVING EQUATIONS.
26. 26.APPENDIX XII. RULES FOR THE APPLICATION OF ARITHMETIC TO GEOMETRY.
27. 27.Untitled

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