is in the place to its right in the multiplicand: do not set down this first figure, but carry its nearest ten to the next, and proceed.
III. Place the first figures of all the lines under one another; add as usual; and mark off n places from the right for decimals.
It is required to multiply 136·4072 by 1·30609, retaining 7 decimal places.
- 1364072000
- 906031
- 1364072000
- 409221600
- 8184432
- 122766
- 178·1600798
In the following examples the first two lines are the multiplicand and multiplier; and the number of decimals to be