Arithmetic simplified : prepared for the use of primary schools, female seminaries, and high schools : in three parts; adapted to classes of different ages, and of different degrees of advancement (1833)
Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878 · Hartford : Published by D.F. Robinson & Co. and sold by booksellers generally · leaf 261
255 EXTRACTION OF THE CUBE ROOT. … meet. The sides of this'small cube, it will be seen, are each equal to the width of these blocks, that is, 2 feet. If each side is 2 feet long, the whole cube must contain 8 solid feet (because 2X2X2 =8), and it will be seen by Fig. 4, that this just fills the vacant corner, and completes the cube.…
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