 | John Sanderson - 1827 - 374 pàgines
...reducing 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, greater changes will be necessary." These changes he points out briefly and distinctly : as being such... | |
 | Robert Taylor Conrad - 1846 - 900 pàgines
...reducing 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, greater changes will be necessary." On the eighteenth of January, 1791, Mr. Jefferson made a report,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 pàgines
...reducing 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, greater changes will be necessary. The unit of measure is still that which must give law through the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 pàgines
...reducing 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, greater changes will be necessary. The unit of measure is still that which must give law through the... | |
 | John Pickering Putnam - 1874 - 76 pàgines
...earnestly recommended it to the attention of the first Congress of the United States. Jefferson desired to reduce " every branch to the same decimal ratio...every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers." John Quincy Adams says of the Metric System: "Considered merely as a labor-saving machine, it is a... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1874 - 580 pàgines
..."reducing every branch to the same decimal ratio already established in the coins, aud 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... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1876 - 578 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 278 pàgines
...sufficiently obvious." Jefferson desired to reduce " every branch to the same decimal ratio alreadj. established in coins, and thus bring the calculation...every man who can multiply and divide plain numbers." John Quincy Adams says of the Metric System : " Considered merely as a labor-saving machine, it is... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1895 - 732 pàgines
...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 - 324 pàgines
...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... | |
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States may be induced to undertake a thorough reformation of their whole system of measures, weights and coins, reducing every branch to the same decimal ratio already established in their coins, and thus bringing the calculation of the principal affairs... 
