SECTION VI. DECIMAL FRACTIONS.

retained will be seen from the results.

Exercises may be got from article (143).

With regard to division, take any two numbers, for example, 16·80437921 and 3·142, and divide the first by the second, as far as any required number of decimal places, for example, five. This gives the following:

3·142)	16·804	379
	15·710
	1·0943
	9426
	15177
(A)	12568
2609	2609	9
2514	2513	6
95	96	32
94	94	26
1	2	061

Now cut off by a vertical line, as in (153), all the figures which come on the right of

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