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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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F.
him, thac deccirtully doch any chins in che Name
Ot anorher, for one thar receirerh Damage ox LTure
cherebu.
DECIDDOOS, is chac which is ape or ready
co tall; and is uled in Reterence ro the Flowers
and Sceds of Planes: Thus che Bocanists Cay, in cand, or molciplicaror ltand, onls oblerre thar
Tome Plants che Perianthium de Calyx is deciduons there must be just as many Decimal Pares cut off by
with che Florer, i. c. Falls trom ofche Plane wich the Separatine Point, fromthe Product, as there are
ir, buc in ochers ie is nOE.
DECIES TANTOM, is a Wric Which liech 2-
Painst a Juror, wbich hach caten Money For chC
sivins ot his Verdict; called (0 oF che effect be-
cause ir is ro recover ren Times so much as heirook.
DECIMAL Fraction, is thac wrhich hach for irs
Denominaror f. Wich a C ypher ox C yphers annex
Cd5 25, 10 268 1030 96.
Wrhich Denominator For Brevicy and Conveni-
ence late, is most commonly expressed by a
Poinror a Comma, set onche lete Fland ot theNu-
MeTATOE, THUS, . 5, 15 2,.46 15 , and. x25, i5
one hundred rvency sive Parrs ot any chine sup-
Poled ro be divided into a 1000 TuCh PArIS.
Incescts.
N. B. As Cyphers sec on che riehe Iland oF
Incegers do Increale che Value olrhem Decimally,
25 2, 20, 200, 655. 50 When sec on the letr Flana
OF Fractions, chey Decrease cheir Value Decimally.
35. 5,.35,.005, (56. Bur set on rhe lete Fland
et Incepers, or on the riehe Cland ot Fractions
they sienisie noching. buc omly co AII up Places,
Thus. 5000 or 0005. is bur tire Onites.
is prelixe co make ux the tive becrmat Llale.
r. T0 Reduce any vulsar Fraction, a5 suppole
s oF a Pound, Shillins. Mile, Vard, Day, Flour,
(5C. 102 Decimal Fraction ot chie lame Value, Whole
Denominator MaII bC 1000. (I PaY 1000, FOF 10
Or 200 are noc large enoueh t0 doic withour a
Fraction.)
Say by che Rule of Threc, 25 B che Denominaror
Ot che vulxar Fraction, isto 5 irs Numéraror, (0
Wvill. 1000 che Denominator astiened, bero
Fourch Term; Wvtich by workine vou Il find 20
bc. 625, and theretore 2uso Or. 625 i5 a Deci-
mat ot che lame Value wich che former Fraction 3.
Formed just as in lefclo, onty care muntberate
sure co place aII che Pothes onc under anocter, thet
add or substract as I Common Arichmetick, di
Ringuillins scom ene Summ or Remainder, se
many Pisures for Decimals, a5 arc che most
De
cimal Places in any of che siren Numbers as in che
chere beinx (o many in borh F actors.
ine ortier a Decimat Fraction.
DECEPLIONB, i5 d Weic chac liech apaintt
Mulciptocation e) Aoimal Fractions.
Generat cule.
Lis no marrer in whar order cicher Mulciple
Oecimals in boch Factors Lhe Work is just as in
Laalaple che tirA, votiere one Decimat Aulciphles
another.
36
73
08030
Elere che Product is onty 8030, but a Cyptier
417
diec
-60630
Example che 2 d. whiere one Factor is an Inteper,
8,030
2. Adanton and substraction of Debonas, is pet
Nore, Tharwtien a Decimal Fraction, ox mixe
Number is ro be Mulriplied by an Vnice wich Cy.
phers annexed chererO, (25 10, 100, 1000, (96. )
eis only removine the Separarrix, (0 many places
comards the riphe Cland in the Mulriplicanu, d
there are Cyphers annexed roche Vnite. LNUSII
en aboue duly placins cach Parr: 25 10 Wwhich b
certowins Examples.
In Addirion,
73567
705
7652 ere io be Mulciplied, by
2,80007
40 285
In Substraction.
trom 35. 3
EaHC 20.98677
Remains 14. 313
1o 16063
Cedtat  0890
Ac. 3. 8302
100
1000 = The Product wilt Y
10000C
Phe Reason ot tich is, Becaule rhere cat B
no more Decimals in che Produet chan ivere s
Valve here
By Multiplication, Decimals are reduced Eo rhe
Knovn ParIS OF such Incegers as cheyare Decimals
ot, in ehis manner: Mulciply ehe siven Decimal
by che Number Memine hou many knovn Parrs
ot rhenexr Inferior Denominarion, are equal ro
ehac inreger; und purlue etis 25 FaF a5 ic vill
viiu
boch che Fractors, and che Crphers any where on
cherietr Etand may be omicred, as bcins ot n0
WHac