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A new and complete system of arithmetic. Composed for the use of the citizens of the United States. By Nicolas Pike, A.M. [Three lines in Latin from Cicero]
Pike, Nicolas, 1743-1819.Date: 1797- Books
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The tyro's guide to arithmetic and mensuration. With an appendix, containing a great many questions both curious and useful. The whole accommodated to the capacity of beginners, and designed for the use of Schools and Mechanics. By William Panton, M. A. Late Master of the Grammar-School of Canongate.
Panton, William.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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A key to F. Walkingame's tutor's assistant: containing the solutions of the questions in that work; with the references as they stand in the last edition of that book printed for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, York. To which is added, some useful rules, &c. By T. Crosby.
Crosby, T. (Thomas), Headmaster of the York Charity Schools.Date: Anno 1797- Books
The young man's companion: or, arithmetick made easy with plain directions for a young man to attain to read and write true English ... likewise, easy rules for the measuring of board ... also directions for measuring, guaging, and plotting of land ... Together with a map of the globe of the earth and water ... : choice monthly observations for gardening ... with experienc'd medicines for the poor an account of curiosities in London and Westminster / written by W. Mather.
Mather, W. (William), active 1695.Date: 1727- Books
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The tutor's assistant: being a compendium of arithmetic; and a complete question-book. In five parts. Containing, I. Arithmetic in whole Numbers; being a brief Explanation of all its Rules, in a new and more concise Method than any hitherto published; with an Application to each Rule, consisting of a large Variety of Questions in real Business, with their Answers annexed. II. Vulgar Fractions, which are treated with a great deal of Plainness and Perspicuity. III. Decimals, with the Extraction of the Square, Cube, and Biquadrate Roots, after a very plain and familiar Manner, in which are set down Rules for the easy calculating of Interest, Annuities, and Pensions in Arrears, the present Worth of Annuities, &c. either by simple or Compound Interest. IV. Duodecimals or Multiplication of Feet and Inches, with Examples applied to measuring, and worked by Multiplication, Practice, and Decimals: To which is added, a Method of multiplying several Figures by several, and the Product to be produced in one Line only. V. A Collection of Questions set down promiscuously, for the greater Trial of the foregoing Rules. The whole being adapted either as a Question Book for the Use of Schools, or as a Remembrancer and Instructor to such as have some Knowledge therein. This Work having been perused by several Eminent Mathematicians and Accomptants, is recommended as the best Compendium hitherto published for the Use of Schools, as well as for Private Persons. The third edition, with several additions, particularly a New and very short Method of extracting the Cube Root. By Francis Walkingame, Writing-Master and Accomptant.
Walkingame, Francis, 1723-1783.Date: 1757