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make 1 ounce , 16 ounces , 1 pound , 28 pounds , 1 quarter of a hundred weight ,
4 quarters , 1 hundred weight , cwt . 20 hundred weights 1 ton , By this weight are
weighed all coarse and drossy goods , grocery wares , and all metals except ...
make 1 ounce , 16 ounces , 1 pound , 28 pounds , 1 quarter of a hundred weight ,
4 quarters , 1 hundred weight , cwt . 20 hundred weights 1 ton , By this weight are
weighed all coarse and drossy goods , grocery wares , and all metals except ...
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... 4 inches make i hand . In measuring depths , six feet make 1 fathom , or French
toise . Distances are measured by a chain , four rods long , containing one
hundred links . 9 Land , or Square Measure . ' , 144 ARITHMETICAL TABLES .
... 4 inches make i hand . In measuring depths , six feet make 1 fathom , or French
toise . Distances are measured by a chain , four rods long , containing one
hundred links . 9 Land , or Square Measure . ' , 144 ARITHMETICAL TABLES .
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... yet when it is placed on the right hand of figures , it in creases their value in a
tenfold proportion , by throwing them into higher places . Thus 2 with a cypher
annexed to it becomes 20 , twenty , and with two cyphers , thus , 200 , two
hundred .
... yet when it is placed on the right hand of figures , it in creases their value in a
tenfold proportion , by throwing them into higher places . Thus 2 with a cypher
annexed to it becomes 20 , twenty , and with two cyphers , thus , 200 , two
hundred .
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place of tens , it becomes so many tens , or ten aimes its simple value , and in the
third place , or place of hundreds , it becomes an hundred times its simple value ,
and so on , as in the following TABLE : ' 1 - One . C . of Millions , X . of Millions ...
place of tens , it becomes so many tens , or ten aimes its simple value , and in the
third place , or place of hundreds , it becomes an hundred times its simple value ,
and so on , as in the following TABLE : ' 1 - One . C . of Millions , X . of Millions ...
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123461 , One hundred and twenty - three thousand four hundred and sixty - one .
4666240 , Four millions , six hundred and sixty - six thousand two hundred and
forty . Note . For convenience in reading large numbers , they may he divided ...
123461 , One hundred and twenty - three thousand four hundred and sixty - one .
4666240 , Four millions , six hundred and sixty - six thousand two hundred and
forty . Note . For convenience in reading large numbers , they may he divided ...
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| Title | Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged, Being a Plain Practical System of Arithmetic, Adapted to the United States |
| Author | Nathan Daboll |
| Publisher | G. Tracy, 1841 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 28 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 231 pages |
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