Cobb's Explantory Arithmetick, Number Two: Containing the Compound Rules, and All that is Necessary of Every Other Rule in Arithmetick for Practical Purposes and the Transactions of Business ... To which is Annexed a Practical System of Book-keeping |
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... hours · 1 hour , H. 1 day , D. - 1 week , W. 1 month , mo . 1 common or Julian year , yr . 12 calendar months 1 solar year , yr . 100 years - 1 century , C. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT . By this weight , all coarse and ARITHMETICAL TABLES . 11.
... hours · 1 hour , H. 1 day , D. - 1 week , W. 1 month , mo . 1 common or Julian year , yr . 12 calendar months 1 solar year , yr . 100 years - 1 century , C. AVOIRDUPOIS WEIGHT . By this weight , all coarse and ARITHMETICAL TABLES . 11.
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... WEIGHT . By this weight , all coarse and drossy goods , gro . ceries , and all metals , except gold and silver , are weighed . The denominations are , Tun , Hundred - weight , Quarter , Pound , Ounce , and Drachm . 16 drachms , dr ...
... WEIGHT . By this weight , all coarse and drossy goods , gro . ceries , and all metals , except gold and silver , are weighed . The denominations are , Tun , Hundred - weight , Quarter , Pound , Ounce , and Drachm . 16 drachms , dr ...
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... weight and one quarter ; how many hundred - weight did he buy at both places ? 13. James , William , and Thomas , went into the field to gather chestnuts . James gathered four quarts and one pint , William gathered six quarts , and ...
... weight and one quarter ; how many hundred - weight did he buy at both places ? 13. James , William , and Thomas , went into the field to gather chestnuts . James gathered four quarts and one pint , William gathered six quarts , and ...
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... weight , and twenty hundred - weight make one tun , and so on . Thus you will perceive , that each sort of money , each sort of weight , and each sort of measure , has its peculiar notation ; and this peculiarity must be known , and ...
... weight , and twenty hundred - weight make one tun , and so on . Thus you will perceive , that each sort of money , each sort of weight , and each sort of measure , has its peculiar notation ; and this peculiarity must be known , and ...
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... WEIGHTS . The TUN is the largest weight to which we reckon ; it is , therefore , the whole num- ber , and it is broken down , or divided , into HUNDRED- WEIGHTS , twenty of which make one tun . hundred - weight being composed of a ...
... WEIGHTS . The TUN is the largest weight to which we reckon ; it is , therefore , the whole num- ber , and it is broken down , or divided , into HUNDRED- WEIGHTS , twenty of which make one tun . hundred - weight being composed of a ...
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Arithmetick borrow bushels carry the quotient cents and five cipher column of cents column of days column of pounds Compound Interest Compound Substraction cost cube root currency decimal dimes divide the amount dividend divisor dollars drachms DRY MEASURE equal EXAMPLES For Theoretical EXPLANATIONS farthings federal money figures five mills four gain gallon given number given sum higher denomination hogshead hundred-weight hundredths improper fraction inches integer left hand lower denomination lower line lowest MEASURE merator merchant bought miles moidores multiply nett weight ounces payment pence pints present worth quantity quarters quarts Reduce Reduction Ascending remainder right hand denomination Rule of Three separatrix shillings Simple Substraction Slate sold solid feet square root substract the lower tare TARE AND TRET tenths Theoretical Exercise third term thousandths Three Direct tion tret TROY WEIGHT tuns upper line Vulgar Fractions wheat whole amount whole numbers
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Page 160 - But if any payments be made before one year's interest hath accrued, then compute the interest on the principal sum due on the obligation, for one year, add- it to the principal, and compute the interest on the sum paid, from the time it was paid up to the end of the year; add it to the sum paid, and deduct that sum from the principal and interest, added as above...
Page 212 - 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 168 - ... then multiply the second and third terms together, and divide their product by the first, the quotient will be the fourth term or answer, in the same denomination vj'ilh the third term.
Page 160 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of the interest must not be taken to augment the principal ; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due...
Page 158 - If a year extends beyond the time of payment, then find the amount of the principal...
Page 159 - The rule for casting interest, when partial payments have been made, is to apply the payment, in the first place, to the discharge of the interest then due. " If the payment exceeds the interest, the surplus goes towards discharging the principal, and the subsequent interest is to be computed on the balance of principal remaining due.
Page 154 - ... 3d. If there be parts of a year, as months and days, work for the months by the aliquot parts of a year...
Page 160 - Compute the interest to the time of the first payment ; if 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 212 - Separate the given number into periods of three figures each, by putting a point over the unit figure, and every third figure beyond the place of units. 2. Find the greatest cube in the left hand period, and put its root in the quotient. 3.
Page 12 - TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.). 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (oz.). 12 ounces = 1 pound (lb.). 351. Apothecaries' weight is used in mixing medicines and in selling them at retail. APOTHECARIES