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An index to interest: containing, I. The largest tables of simple interest that have yet been made publick; shewing the same, at once, for any number of Days in the whole Year, and thence Annually to 20 Years, at all the usual Rates. II. A Table of Discount for any number of Days not exceeding 365. III. Two Tables shewing, by Inspection, the present Worth of Annuities and the Purchase thereof; all done in Vulgar Numbers without Decimals. IV. An easie Table for the valuation of any number of Years Lapsed in a Church or College-Lease of Land, shewing the Fines payable at one View. V. Tables of the Amount and present Worth of any Sum of Money, and of Annuities to 61 Years, and Rules to apply them for 122 Years. Also The full Use of all the Tables; and how the same may be calculated and examined by Vulgar, Decimal, and Logarithmical Arithmetick, and the Simple Interest also by Practice. Likewise easie Rules for Valuation of 1, 2, and 3 Lives. Together with a new invented circle for the easie finding the number of days contain'd between any two in the year. Useful for Lawyers, Merchants, Scriveners, and all others who Receive and Pay Interest-Money. The second edition, corrected and amended. By E. Hatton, philomath.
Hatton, Edward, 1664?-Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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Essay IV. On the nature and principles of public credit. Containing observations on the system of redemption laid down in the late act of Parliament; and on the Means of preserving the Sinking Fund in its proper Line of Service: together with a brief Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State, of the Public Debts. To which is added, an appendix. Containing Tables of the Comparative Values of Annuity Stocks bearing different Rates of Interest; with their Explanation, and Use.
Gale, S. (Samuel), -1826.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The banker's sure guide; or, monied man's assistant. In three parts, Viz. I. Tables of Interest for any Sum, at the current Prices of 2, 21/2, 3, 31/2, 4, 41/2, and 5 per Cent. from 1 to 90 and 300 Days; and from 1 Month to a Year, at 2, 21/2, 3, 31/2, 4, 4 and 1-6th (or 10d. in the Pound), 41/4, 41/2, 43/4, and 5 per Cent. II. Sundry Tables shewing the Value of Annuities certain, and Annuities on Lives, founded on the most rational Probabilities; how to find the Value of two or more Lives, joint Lives, Reversions, Presentations, &c. III. A large and accurate Table of Commission or Brokerage, from 1/8 to 3 per Cent. rising progressively only 1/8 per Cent. at a Time. Also of 4, 5, 6, and of 9 to 20 per Cent.; which together may be readily applied to Exchanges to Ireland. To which is prefixed, by way of introduction, a new and comprehensive treatise on decimals, and a concise Method of equating the Stocks to one another. The seventh edition, enlarged and corrected. By S. Thomas, Author of the British Negociator, or Foreign Exchanges made easy.
Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.Date: 1798- Books
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New tables, shewing I. The value of any quantity of stock at any price. Also the Quantity of Stock that any Sum of Money will purchase. The Answer is given in Pounds, Shillings, Pence, and the Decimal Parts of a Penny. II. What interest is made per cent per annum of any Purchase from £ 60 to £ 200 per Cent, at 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, 5, 5 1/2, 6 and 7 per Cent. III. The number of days from any day in one month to the same day in any other month. to the same Day in any other Month. IV. Of interest, at 3, 31/2, 4 and 5 per cent per annum, from £ 1 to £ 1000, for One Day to 100 Days, 200 and 300 Days, and for one Month to 12 Months. V. How to find by the Table of Interest at 5 per Cent the Amount of wages for any number of days, for any Sum from 10s. to £ 1000 per Annum. VI. For the ready calling up of interest, at 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per Cent. Vii. Shewing the present value of an annuity of £1, from One Year to Sixty Years, at 3, 3 1/2, 4 and 5 per Cent. Viii. Shewing the present state of transferable annuities at the Bank of England, South Sea and India Houses, with the Days and House of Transfering and Payment of Interest, and also the Holidays observed at the Publick Offices. By John Stonehouse. And examined by William Chapman, of the Bank of England.
Stonehouse, John, active 18th century.Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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A dissertation concerning the arithmetick of annuities: Wherein it is shewn, That this Branch of Arithmetick is hitherto deficient, with respect to true Rules, deduc'd from the only true and just Supposition of discounting simple Interest, for resolving Questions concerning the Present Worths, Rates, Times of Continuance, &c. of Annuities, Leases, Mortgages, &c. at Simple Interest. To which are subjoin'd Proposals for supplying this Defect, By John Innes, M. A. Teacher of the Mathematicks in Edinburgh.
Innes, John, M.A.Date: M.DCC.XLI. [1741]