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Page ii - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the tenth day of August, AD 1829, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, JP Dabney, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit...
Page 82 - OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes =± 1 Hour 24 Hours = 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days = 1 Lunar Month...
Page 145 - Multiply all the numerators together for a new numerator, and all the denominators together for a new denominator.
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Page 143 - Divide the numerator by the denominator. The quotient will be the whole number, and the remainder, if...
Page 270 - Divide the difference of the extremes by the common difference, and the quotient increased by 1 is the number of terms.
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Page 269 - Multiply £ the sum of the extremes by the number of terms, and the product will be the answer 10.
Page 247 - Multiply the divisor with the figure last annexed by the figure last placed in the root, and subtract the product from the dividend. To the remainder join the next period for a new dividend.
Page 192 - Now .} of f- is a compound fraction, whose value is found by multiplying the numerators together for a new numerator, and the denominators for a new denominator.