The National Arithmetic on the Inductive System: Combining the Analytic and Synthetic Methods, Together with the Cancelling System : Forming a Complete Mercantile Arithmetic |
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... present age from the past . The present work is offered to the public , as one constructed on a plan which appears to the author better adapted to meet the wants of the times than any other now in use . The end to be sought in the study ...
... present age from the past . The present work is offered to the public , as one constructed on a plan which appears to the author better adapted to meet the wants of the times than any other now in use . The end to be sought in the study ...
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... present work until he reviews it , if thought advisable by the teacher . A few rules , which are omitted in some works on Arithmetic at the present day , the author has thought best to retain , such as Practice , Progression , Position ...
... present work until he reviews it , if thought advisable by the teacher . A few rules , which are omitted in some works on Arithmetic at the present day , the author has thought best to retain , such as Practice , Progression , Position ...
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... present decimal scale of numeration were originally adopted to express all numbers , even of the highest order . - There are It is now almost universally admitted that our present numeral char- acters , and the method of estimating ...
... present decimal scale of numeration were originally adopted to express all numbers , even of the highest order . - There are It is now almost universally admitted that our present numeral char- acters , and the method of estimating ...
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... present extension and perfection have been taken at long intervals and among different nations . It has been developed by the necessities of business , by the strong love of certain minds for mathematical science and numerical ...
... present extension and perfection have been taken at long intervals and among different nations . It has been developed by the necessities of business , by the strong love of certain minds for mathematical science and numerical ...
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... subtraction . denote the root of a quantity he also used our present sign , origi- nally r , the initial of the word radix , root . to denote The sign = To The science of Arithmetic , like all other sciences , 10 INTRODUCTION .
... subtraction . denote the root of a quantity he also used our present sign , origi- nally r , the initial of the word radix , root . to denote The sign = To The science of Arithmetic , like all other sciences , 10 INTRODUCTION .
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Page 176 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; that be one year or more from the time the interest commenced, add it to the principal, and deduct the payment from the sum total. If there be after payments made, compute the interest on the balance due to the next payment, and then deduct the payment as above; and in like manner from one payment to another, till all the payments are absorbed: provided the time between one payment and another be one year or more.
Page 172 - Compute the interest on the principal sum, from the time when the interest commenced to the first time when a payment was made, which exceeds either alone or in conjunction with the preceding payment...
Page 203 - Ratio is the relation which one quantity bears to another of the same kind, the comparison being made by considering what multiple, part, or parts, one quantity is of the other.
Page 260 - Raise the ratio to a power whose index is equal to the number of terms, from which subtract 1 ; divide the remainder by the ratio, less 1, and the quotient, multiplied by the first term, will be the answer.
Page 315 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 296 - Thirty days after sight of this first of exchange (second and third of the same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 327 - ... above the upper deck ; the breadth thereof at the broadest part above the main wales, half of which breadth shall be accounted the depth of such vessel, and...
Page 92 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Page 198 - B. $380, to be paid as follows: $100 in 6 months, $120 in 7 months, and $160 in 10 months. What is the equated time for the payment of the whole ? Ans.
Page 241 - Double the figures already found in the root for a new divisor, (or, bring down your last divisor for a new one, doubling the right hand figure of it,) and from these find the next figure in the root, as last directed, and continue the operation in the same manner, till you have brought down all the periods.