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Interest - Tables - Early works to 1800
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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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Tables for buying and selling stocks, from 60, 60 1/8, 1/4, 3/8, &c. to £ 130 Per Cent. Constructed on so easy a Plan, that Solutions to most Questions may be obtained by Inspection only, and other Cases may generally be answered by adding together two or three Simple Numbers. To which is added, a table shewing the value of the parts or residuals, from 19s. 11d. three Farthings down to One Farthing. Likewise tables of interest at 3, 3 and a half, 4 and 5 per Cent. from £ 1 to £ 1000, calculated to the hundredth Part of a Penny, for any Number of Days or Months required. And A new Table shewing the Interest due on any Number of Exchequer Bills. With a list of the holidays kept at all the Public Offices, the Days and Hours of transferring Stocks, &c. The second edition, with additions. By Benjamin Webb, Writing Master and Accountant, and Master of the Grammar School belonging to the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers in Bunhill-Row.
Webb, Benjamin.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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Tables of interest, at 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, from 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years. Also, tables of exchange and commission, from 1/8 to 3 per cent. By John Thomson, Edinburgh.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Interest at one view, calculated to a farthing. At £ 2 1/2, 3, 3 1/2, 4, 4 1/2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 per Cent. For £ 1000 to £ 1 for 1 Day to 96 Days; and for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 Months. With Rules and Examples to cast up Interest at any Rate, by the said Tables. With a curious Table, whereby Standard Gold and Silver in Bars, is compared with the Courses of Exchange between Amsterdam and London. Also Tables for reducing Gold Coins to Pounds, and the Contrary: Shewing what Interest is made per Cent. per Annum of any Purchase: For the Valuation of Annuities: And for casting up Bank-Stock, Annuities, &c. carefully calculated By Richard Hayes. To which is added, tables, whereby to cast up Salaries, and Wages speedily, &c. &c.
Hayes, Richard, accomptant and writing-master.Date: 1789- Books
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A correct book of interest, containing the fullest tables of simple interest, that have yet appeared; viz. I. The Interest of any Number of Pounds, Shillings, Pence and Farthings, for one Day, at 4, 5 and 6 per Cent. II. Tables at 4, 5 and 6 per Cent: on a new Principle, shewing the Interest, at one View, up to 12,000l. for one Day, and so on to 1000l. for 12 Days, and, by one Subtraction, any greater Sum. III. Improvements on the usual Tables, being from 1l. continued by Units to 30l. and from 30l. by Tens, Hundreds, and Thousands, to 5000l. and for any Number of Days, from 1 Day to 366 Days, and from 1 Month to 7 Years, at 4, 5 and 6 per Cent. Also, The Explanation and Use of all the Tables, by a Variety of Examples; with several Methods of computing Interest, Commission, &c. Examples of Interest Accounts, and some of the Laws relative thereto: A Table, shewing the exact Number of Days, from one Time to another in the Year: A Table of Exchange at Par, between England and Ireland; with Methods of making out the Exchange, at any other Rate: A Table of Salaries and Wages: and other useful tables: All done by plain vulgar numbers, to make it easy to the meanest Capacity. By Joseph Middleton, Accomptant.
Middleton, Joseph.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]