| 1896 - 522 Seiten
...which he proposed (July, 1790) "to reduce every branch to the decimal ratio already established for coins, and thus bring the calculation of the principal...arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide." The consideration of the subject being again urged by Washington, a committee of Congress reported... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1896 - 340 Seiten
...Representatives, said : " I propose to introduce every branch of the decimal ratio already established for coins, and thus bring the calculation of the principal...arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide." No one, indeed, who has ever given this subject serious consideration has failed to appreciate the... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1897 - 982 Seiten
...which he proposed (July, 1790) 'to reduce every branch to the decimal ratio already established for coins, and thus bring the calculation of the principal...arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide.' The consideration of the subject being again urged by Washington, a committee * Bulletin 26, US Coast... | |
| 1897 - 718 Seiten
...conception of the subject, proposed "to reduce every branch to the decimal ratio already established for coins, and thus bring the calculation of the principal...arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide." This report was submitted to Congress in July, 1790. In May of the same year the French government... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1897 - 300 Seiten
...which he proposed (July, 1790) 'to reduce' every branch to the decimal ratio already established for coins, and thus bring the calculation of the principal...arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide.' The consideration of the subject being again urged by Washington, a committee » Bulletin 26, US Coast... | |
| U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1899 - 202 Seiten
...which he proposed (July, 1790) "to reduce every branch to the decimal ratio already established for coins, and thus bring the calculation of the principal...arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide." The consideration of the subject being again urged by Washington, a committee of Congress reported... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1900 - 384 Seiten
..."reducing every branch to the same decimal ratio already established in the coins, and thus bringing the calculation of the principal affairs of life within...every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers." 1 Here is an essential element in the common system we seek to establish. This was in 1790, when France... | |
| United States. Bureau of Standards - 1905 - 542 Seiten
...every branch to the same decimal ratio already established for coin, and thus bring the calculations of the principal affairs of life within the arithmetic...every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers. "c No action was taken, however, by the House and in his second message to Congress, on December 8,... | |
| William Hallock, Herbert Treadwell Wade - 1906 - 332 Seiten
...reduce " every branch to the same decimal ratio already established in their coins, and thus bringing the calculation of the principal affairs of life within...every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers." The success which has attended the decimal currency of the United States shows that Jefferson was wise... | |
| 1918 - 48 Seiten
...which he proposed (July, 1790) "to reduce every branch to the decimal ratio already established for coins, and thus bring the calculation of the principal...arithmetic of every man who can multiply and divide." The consideration of the subject being again urged by Washington, a committee of Congress reported... | |
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