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She talked as if she were quite grown-up, older than Esther, seventeen or eighteen at the very least. What a little white face she had! what a great thick plait of hair! How erect she held herself! Fraulein would never have to rebuke her new pupil for stooping shoulders. It was kind of her to promise help with those troublesome decimals! Quite too good an offer to refuse.
No, certainly not she mustn't think of going back to St. Sidwell's for another three months. Three months! Impossible! It was a whole term. Dr. Cautley scowled horribly and said that if she was ever to be fit for cube-root and decimals again, she positively and absolutely must. Whereupon Miss Quincey gave way to emotion. To leave St.
He had taught himself a language down here, if only to know it by sight, and to have formed his own crude ideas of its pronunciation, could be called learning it. He had also worked at fractions and decimals, and tried a little algebra; but he was, and had been as a boy, a poor hand at figures.
The subconscious force of this abstract influence went far toward moulding the delicate shoots of his rapidly developing mentality into a brilliant knowledge of weights and measures, decimals, and the native population of Borneo.
Well clear of the atmosphere of the satellite, the terrestrial cruiser shot forward at normal acceleration, while the Titanian vessels halted and wove a pattern of blue and golden rays in salute to the departing guests. "Well, Nadia, we're off on a long trek, too." "Said Wun Long Hop, the Chinese pee-lo," Nadia agreed. "Sure everything's all x, big boy?" "To nineteen decimals," he declared.
His side of the sum was beyond question; but what man knew Mother Gunga's arithmetic? Even as he was making all sure by the multiplication table, the river might be scooping a pot-hole to the very bottom of any one of those eighty-foot piers that carried his reputation. Again a servant came to him with food, but his mouth was dry, and he could only drink and return to the decimals in his brain.
Rushmore could no more have divided five hundred thousand by four hundred and eighty-four to three places of decimals than she could have composed Parsifal, but her doubts were satisfied by its having been done 'on paper.
"May I ask if Selby-Harrison ?" "It was his suggestion," said Hilda. "Neither Lalage nor I are any good at sums, specially decimals." "And," said Lalage, "you'll get a copy of each number post free just the same as if you were a regular subscriber!" "We've got one advertiser already," said Hilda. "And," said Lalage, "advertisments pay the whole cost of newspapers nowadays.
The whole language was spoken and written on a system of decimals, which rendered it particularly easy, after the elementary principles were once acquired. Thus, unlike most human tongues, in which the rule usually forms the exception, no departure from its laws was ever allowed, under the penalty of the pillory.
Pedby, the Junior Fellow, went and unhooked from the wall that little shield of wood on which the words of the grace are carven. Mr. Pedby was Mr. Pedby is a mathematician. His treatise on the Higher Theory of Short Division by Decimals had already won for him an European reputation. Judas was Judas is proud of Pedby.
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