Handbook of the steam-engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a key to the 'Catechism of the steam-engine.' (1874)
Bourne, John · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 83
of two quantities toone another without ever becoming equal, we may take the fol-lowing example: Here we have a line a b which we may divide into any rum- ARITHMETICAL EXAMINES. 67 Ler of equal parts, and we draw the line a o at rig-lit angleswith a b : at o we draw another short line ao parallel… … we cut off successive portions of xc, and therefore continuallydiminish it. But we never can cut it all off, however extendedwe may make the line a b, and however numerous the addi-tional portions cut off may be. The quantity xq becomes moreand more nearly equal to xa, the greater the length of the…
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