Excerpt from A New System of Arithmetic on an Improved Plan When the pupil has advanced as far as Proportion, care is again taken that he be not bewildered by the introduction of new terms, which mean the same thing with those with which he is already fa miliar. It is shown that the terms, antecedent, and consequent, mean the same thing as dividend and divisor in Division, - the same as numerator and denominator, in Fractions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.