This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. A FEW SUGGESTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS TO THE READER Now, all that is necessary to calculate the area of a farm having any number of sides is to know how only to add, subtract, multiply, and divide by short division. There is nothing hard about the calculation at all, and please don't get it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER I. A FEW SUGGESTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS TO THE READER Now, all that is necessary to calculate the area of a farm having any number of sides is to know how only to add, subtract, multiply, and divide by short division. There is nothing hard about the calculation at all, and please don't get it into your head that there is anything difficult about it either. You know that $7.25 stands for seven dollars and twenty-five cents, and in like manner any number such as, say 3.72 chs. on the calculation sheets means three chains and seventy-two links, or 72/100th of a chain. Each one of the above numbers is a Decimal Fraction. In fact, every time you write any sum of money of any number of dollars and cents you write down a decimal fraction. The point coming between the dollars and the number of cents is called the Decimal Point. As you see, it is nothing but a period. When you multiply two decimal numbers together count the number of figures to the right of the decimal point in both numbers (the Multiplicand and the Multiplier). Point off as many figures to the right in the product as there are in both of the numbers multiplied together, as shown in the following examples: 3.432 X 2.41 = 8.27112. Also .624 X 2.1 = 1.3104 123 45 54321 123 4 4321 The top numbers are the numbers multiplied together. The bottom numbers simply show how to properly count the figures to the right of the numbers multiplied together, and in the product the bottom figures show how to count and point off the proper number of figures. In the product, always start counting from the right hand end of the number. You have now, right in the beginning, mastered the hardest part of the computation, as all the rest of it is simply addition, subtraction, and short division, as...
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