A New, Copious and Complete System of Arithmetic: For the Use of Schools and Counting Houses, in the United States of America, Or, Arithmetical Instructor, Containing a General Course of Mercantile Examples ... |
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acres add the quotient amount annuity Arithmetic arithmetical series Avoirdupoise banco barrels breadth bushels common difference cube root cubic cyphers decimal Decimal Days denari denominator discount divide their sum dividend divisor drams ducat ells equal equations error EXAMPLES feet figures Find the interest find the number formula fourth fraction gain gallon Genoa geometrical geometrical series give given number gold greater guilders half hence inches insured last term length logarithm MEASURE merchant mervadies milreas moidore months multiplicand Multiply NOTE number of terms Operation ounces payments pence pezzoes Philadelphia piaster pounds premium present worth principal PROBLEM proportion quantities rate per cent ratio Reduce remainder rials rix dollar Rule of Three shew shillings simple interest simple numbers soldi sterling subtract Suppose testoon thence theorem thing third TROY WEIGHT vulgar fraction weight whole numbers yards
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