Evidently we could not do this if we had n = n - 1, since then by subtraction we should always obtain again the same number.
For subtraction it is quite otherwise; it may be logically defined as the operation inverse to addition; but should we begin in that way?
Less serious offences were punished bysubtraction of "commons," i.
The King's College statute "De correctionibus faciendis circa delicta leviora" is largely a transcript of a New College statute, with the same title, and both contemplate subtraction of commons as the regular penalty.
The usual penalties for minor offences are fines and subtraction of commons: references to (p.
Each atom is negatively or positively charged according to the addition or subtraction of electrons.
Since they must (not being fools) be aware that these antics were mere subtraction of time from their business, the obvious conclusion was, they were not happy with business.
They had bequeathed him just enough income to live on cheerfully, without display but without having to do addition and subtraction at the end of the month and then tear up the paper lest Fuji (the butler) should see it.
In the pure and dry state, and after subtraction of the ash, their composition is,-- Skin.
Matter and Force are held to be Eternal, and Infinite, it following that there can be no addition to, or subtraction from either; all apparent loss and gain, creation and destruction being but change of form or mode.
Subtraction therefore cannot be done by turning it in the opposite way, hence the two wheels C and C' are introduced.
The carrying mechanism, too, is different, and so arranged that the handle can be turned either way, no special setting being required for subtraction or division.
In Euclid's Elements this form of the theorem does not appear, all propositions being so stated that the notion of subtraction does not enter into them.
Addition, as far as it required any rules, came naturally under Multiplication, while Subtraction was involved in the process of Division.
Nevertheless, the remainder in our subtraction from the sum of men only differs by a sixth or so from that which results in our subtraction from the sum of women.
It will be affirmed by some one that this subtraction leaves a remainder of four millions in the case of women.
I add this condition, because the just price of things is not fixed with mathematical precision, but depends on a kind of estimate, so that a slight addition or subtraction would not seem to destroy the equality of justice.
Because Holy Writ is the rule of faith, to which no addition or subtraction can lawfully be made, since it is written (Deut.
Hence it is clear that when a person is called from the contemplative life to the active life, this is done by way not of subtraction but of addition.
An alteration of, or subtraction from, a contract for a sale of stocks.
But with Mark Pattison the process of subtractionwas more congenial than the process of addition.
There is a certain amount of addition and subtraction to be done; the point is whether the sum total is to the credit of the person concerned.
By a mere process of subtraction we may determine the number of non-graduates, as well as the number of these that fail, and then compute the percentage of the non-graduates who fail.
Surprising as this numeral is, it is more than matched by the Ainu scale, which carries subtraction back still another step, and calls 6, 10 - 4.
More rarely yet are instances met with of languages which make use of subtraction almost as freely as addition, in the composition of numerals.
One of the best known and most interesting examples of subtraction as a well-defined principle of formation is found in the Maya scale.
