1
He was a mathematician as far as long division and decimal fractions.
2
Evidently his wife knew nothing of denominate quantities or decimal fractions.
3
Even so, the opposition to decimal fractions continues up to date.
4
Will decimal fractions support his back or strengthen his lumbar vertebrae?
5
Only after about 600 years the decimal fractions were accepted.
6
They must also be able to change vulgar fractions into decimal fractions, and decimals into vulgar fractions, with examples like the following:
7
Esther was far ahead of her in most subjects, and Mellicent learned with pained surprise that she knew nothing whatever about decimal fractions.
8
In arithmetic, the common rules are taught, but scarcely ever decimal fractions, and almost never book-keeping, so useful and so easy an art.
9
Mrs. Travers had attended a school where embroidery was the chief number in the curriculum, and mathematics (after decimal fractions) made elective.
10
Who, for instance, could find such a beautiful love simile from a book of arithmetic costing twenty-five cents, as I have unearthed from decimal fractions?
11
"And I found that you keep books without having the slightest knowledge of denominate quantities or decimal fractions."