A Complete System of Theoretical and Mercantile Arithmetic: Comprehending a Full View of the Various Rules Necessary in Calculation. With a Practical Illustrations of the Most Material Regulations and Transactions that Occur in Commerce. Particularly, Interest, Stocks, Annuities, Marine Insurance, Exchange, &c., &c. Comp. for the Use of the Students at the Commercial Institution, Woodford |
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Page 360
... rix- dollars ; and each of these was received only at the standard of banco : so that the ducatoon was taken only at 60 stivers ; the 3 - guilder piece , at 57 stivers ; the specie rixdollar , at 50 stivers ; and the current rixdollar ...
... rix- dollars ; and each of these was received only at the standard of banco : so that the ducatoon was taken only at 60 stivers ; the 3 - guilder piece , at 57 stivers ; the specie rixdollar , at 50 stivers ; and the current rixdollar ...
Page 361
... Rixdollar 6 Florins = 1 Pound Flemish Flemish 12 Grotes Money 20 Schillings = 2 gr . Flemish = 34 Schil . Flem . = 100 gr . Flemish = 1 Schilling = 1 Pound In Holland , the Flemish denominations of money are much employed in stating the ...
... Rixdollar 6 Florins = 1 Pound Flemish Flemish 12 Grotes Money 20 Schillings = 2 gr . Flemish = 34 Schil . Flem . = 100 gr . Flemish = 1 Schilling = 1 Pound In Holland , the Flemish denominations of money are much employed in stating the ...
Page 362
... Rixdollar Half ditto Silver Quarter ditto Zealand Rixdollar = 54 Stivers 6 Stivers 50 Stivers 25 Stivers 124 Stivers 52 Stivers half ditto = 26 Stivers quarter do . = 13 Stivers Drie Gulden = 3 Florins Ducatoon 63 Stivers Ryder 14 ...
... Rixdollar Half ditto Silver Quarter ditto Zealand Rixdollar = 54 Stivers 6 Stivers 50 Stivers 25 Stivers 124 Stivers 52 Stivers half ditto = 26 Stivers quarter do . = 13 Stivers Drie Gulden = 3 Florins Ducatoon 63 Stivers Ryder 14 ...
Page 363
... Rixdollars 1 Ducat of exchange . 1 Ruble . 1 Rixdollar current . 1 Florin Banco . for 100 Rixdollars current . Antwerp gives 4 per cent & receives 104 Florins for 100 Flor . Banco . Agio of the Bank , 4 per cent , or 100 Flor . B. = 104 ...
... Rixdollars 1 Ducat of exchange . 1 Ruble . 1 Rixdollar current . 1 Florin Banco . for 100 Rixdollars current . Antwerp gives 4 per cent & receives 104 Florins for 100 Flor . Banco . Agio of the Bank , 4 per cent , or 100 Flor . B. = 104 ...
Page 370
... rixdollars , reckoned per cent better than banco . Light coin is composed chiefly of foreign coins , which are esteemed about 38 per cent worse than banco . Hamburgh money was formerly distinguished by the word Lubs , from BANK OF ...
... rixdollars , reckoned per cent better than banco . Light coin is composed chiefly of foreign coins , which are esteemed about 38 per cent worse than banco . Hamburgh money was formerly distinguished by the word Lubs , from BANK OF ...
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agio Amsterdam annuity Arithmetic Avoirdupois bank money bills bought brokerage bushels coins commission convoy and arrival cost course of exchange DAYS OF GRACE debt decimal deduct denominator discount Divide dividend divisor dollars draft Ducat English EXAMPLE EXERCISES figure firlots Flemish Florins Francs gallons Genoa given number gold Groschen Grotes Flem guilders guineas per cent Hamburgh hhds inches least common multiple least term Leghorn Lire Lisbon logarithm loss Maravedies merchant method milree moidores Multiply number of days number of terms ounce paid payment pence Pezza Piastres pound sterling proportion quantity quotient Reduce Rees remainder Required the value return for short return of premium return per cent Rixdollars RULE Scudo shillings ship short interest silver sold Soldi sterling money stivers subtract sugar tare Tari underwriters USANCE Venice vulgar fraction weight whole number yards
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Page 96 - RULE. Divide as in whole numbers, and from the right hand of the quotient point off as many places for decimals as the decimal places in the dividend exceed those in the divisor.
Page 49 - Operations with Fractions A) To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, simply multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction and add the numerator.
Page 124 - Subtract the square of this figure from the left-hand period, and to the remainder annex the next period for a dividend.
Page 296 - ... 10 per cent per month, until the whole is paid,) he will receive three receipts, which separately contain an engagement to transfer to the person possessing them, £10,000 stock in the 3 per cents, £5,000 stock in the 4 per cents, and £31.
Page 297 - Exchequer bills are issued for different hundreds or thousands of pounds, and bear an interest of 2±d . per cent. per diem, from the day of their date, to the time when they are advertised to be paid off. Navy bills are merely bills of exchange, drawn at 90 days...
Page 143 - Subtract the logarithm of the divisor from the logarithm of the dividend, and obtain the antilogarithm of the difference.
Page 129 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
Page 52 - Rule. — Multiply each numerator by all the denominators except its own for the new numerators, and multiply all the denominators together for a common denominator.* Example.
Page 32 - Then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first term: the quotient will be the fourth term, or answer.
Page 140 - And if the given number be a proper vulgar fraction ; subtract the logarithm of the denominator from the logarithm of the numerator, and the remainder will be the logarithm sought ; which, being that of a decimal fraction, must always have a negative index.