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Decimal Fractions

To reduce a Vulgar
Fraction into a decimal

Annex Cyphers to the
numerator till it be
equal to or greater than
the denominator then
divide by the denominator
and the the quotient will
be the decimal sought.

If after you have
made use of all the
Cyphers annexed to the
numerator there is a
remainder annex Cyphers
thereto and continue your
division till it divide off
or arrive to what degree
of exactness you think
proper.-

Always observe to
set a point betwixt the
numerator and the Cyphers
annexed thereto and that
the quotient have as
many places as you annex
Cyphers to the numerator
and remainders; and if
it be deficient let the
want be supplied by prefixing
as many Cyphers
to the quotient as it falls
short.-

Those decimals
that are reduced from
such a Vulgar Fraction
whose numerator with
Cyphers annexed is an
aliquot part of or can
be measured by its denominator
are finite or
determinate decimals.-
as No fraction will
produce a finite decimal
but such whose denominator
is 2 or 5 and
their multiples.-

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Identifier: | JB/135/080/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 135.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	135	Main Headings
Folio number	080	Info in main headings field	decimal fractions
Image	002	Titles
Category	private material	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir samuel bentham	Watermarks	1798
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	46198
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