 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 442 pages
...proportional 2. In all thefe cafes, if the number to be made a parallel diilance be too great for the feftor, fome aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the anfwer...the number by which the firft number was divided. Ufe of the Line of Chords on the SRC-TOR. I. To open the feftor fo as the two lines of chords may make... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...proportional 2. In all theie cafe', if the number to be made a parallel diftance be too great for the fe flor, fome aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the anfwer...the number by which the firft number was divided. Ufe of the Line of Chords on the SECTOR. I. To open the feclor fo as the two lines of chords may make... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1811 - 580 pages
...some aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the answer multiplied by the number by which the first number was divided. Thus, if it were required to find a fourth proportional to 4, 8, and 6 ; because the lateral distance of the second term 8 cannot be made the parallel distance of the first... | |
 | George Adams - Geometry - 1813 - 648 pages
...some aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the answer multiplied by the number by which the first number was divided. Thus, if it were required to find a fourth proportional to 4, 8, and 6; because the lateral distance of the second term 8 cannot be made the parallel distance of the first... | |
 | George Adams - Geometry - 1813 - 576 pages
...some aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the answer multiplied by the number by which the first number was divided. ' Thus; if it were required to find a fourth proportional to 4, 8, and (i; because the lateral distance of the second term 8 cannot be made the parallel distance of the first... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1814 - 558 pages
...some aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the ans.wer multiplied by4he number by which the first number was divided. Thus, if it were required to find a fourth proportional to* 4, 8, and 6 ; because the lateral distance of the second term 8 cannot be made the parallel distance of the first... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 746 pages
...In all tbefe cafes, if the number to be made a parallel diftance be too great for the feetor, ii, me aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the anfwer...the number by which the firft number was divided. ( 387 ) S Cf (v.) SECTOR, USE or THE LINE OF POLYGONS ON THE. I. Toinfcribe a regular polygon in a... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1832 - 290 pages
...some aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the answer multiplied by the number by which the first number was divided. Thus, if it were required to find a fourth propodjjijhal to 4, 8, and 6, because the lateral distance of the second 'ierm 8 cannot be made the... | |
 | Robert Gibson, James Ryan - Surveying - 1839 - 452 pages
...some aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the answer multiplied by the number by which the first number was divided. Thus, if it were required to find a fourth proportional to 4, 8, and 0, because the lateral distance of the second term 8 cannot be made the parallel distance of the first... | |
 | Henry S. Merrett - 1863 - 428 pages
...some aliquot part of it is to be taken, and the answer multiplied by the number by which the first number was divided. Thus : if it were required to find a fourth proportional to 4, 8, and 6, because the lateral distance of the second term 8 cannot be made the parallel distance of the first... | |
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Thus, if it were required to find a fourth proportional to 4, 8, and 6; because the lateral distance of the second term 8 cannot be made the parallel distance of the first term 4, take the lateral distance of 4, viz. the half of 8, and make it the parallel... 