The naval architect's and shipbuilder's pocket-book of formulae, rules, and tables and marine engineer's and surveyor's handy book of reference (1884)
Mackrow, Clement · London, C. Lockwood and co. · leaf 16
decimal consists of. Mul-tiply the remaining decimal by the number of parts in the nextlesser denomination, and point off as many decimals in theproduct as before. Proceed thus till you have brought out theleast known parts of the integer. Ex. 1. What is the value of . Ex. 2. What is the value… … Fig. a.-- PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. 1. From any given point in a straight lineto erect a perpendicular. (Fig. 1.) On each side of the point a in the line fromwhich the perpendicular is to be erected set otfequal distances A J, A^; and from h and e ascentres, with any radius greater than Kb or A^,describe…
