The Accomplished Tutor; Or, Complete System of Liberal Education:: Containing the Most Improved Theory and Practice of the Following Subjects: 1. English Grammar, and Elocution. 2. Penmanship, and Short Hand. 3. Arithmetic, Vulgar and Decimal ... 18. Drawing, Engraving, and Painting. And Other Useful Matter. Embellished with Twenty Copper-plates and Six Maps, Neatly Engraved, Volume 2

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H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row; and Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry., 1806 - Arithmetic - 458 pages

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Page 10 - Quantities equal in Value, and having one given Index. RULE. Divide the indices of the quantities by the given index, and the quotients will be the new indices of thofe quantities. Then over the faid quantities with their new indices place the given index, and they will be the equivalent values required. EXAMPLE. Let iai, and
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Page 72 - of their logarithms. Alfo a number may be raifed to any power by multiplying the logarithm of the root by the index of the power: and the extraction of roots may be performed by dividing the logarithm of the given number by the index of the root required to be extracted. Logarithms confidered in their theory, are of very ancient origin, and were

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