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The Federal or new ready reckoner, and traders useful assistant; in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail adapted to the federal money; shewing at one view the amount or value of any number of quantity of goods or merchandise, from half cent to one dollar and upwards either by weight or measure, together with interest tables &c. in so plain and easy a manner that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic, may hereby ascertain the value in federal money, of any quantity of goods in weight or measure, at any price whatever.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- Books
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The ready reckoner; or trader's most useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities either Wholesale or Retail. Shewing at one View The Amount or Value of any Number or Quantity of Goods or Merchandise from one Farthing to Twenty Shillings, either by the long or short Hundred, half Hundred or Quarter, Pound or Ounce, Ell or Yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a Manner, that Persons quite unacquainted with Arithmetic may hereby ascertain the Value of any Number of Hundreds, Pounds, Ounces, Ells or Yards, &c. at any Price whatever: And to the most ready in Figures, it will be equally useful by saving much Time in casting up what is here correctly done to their Hand. To which is added, 1. A double table of Portugal money, from 1 to 1000. 2 A Table of Expences or Wages by the Day, Week, Month or Year. 3. A table of annuities and Commission or Brokerage from one to one Eighth per Cent. The fifth edition, with additions on Board and Timber Measure, Brickwork, and Gauging by the Pen and Slip-Rule. By Daniel Fenning, (author of the Royal English Dictionary, the Schoolmaster's most useful Companion and Scholar's best Instructor, Young Man's Book of Knowledge, Use of the Globes and the Universal Spelling Book) and Others.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]- Books
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The Ready reckoner; or, Trader's sure guide: Addapted to the use of persons who buy or sell any sort of goods, either in wholesale or retail. Shewing, at one view, by exact tables, ready cast up, The amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the ounce, pound, Yard, ell, hundred, half-hundred, or quarter, &c, &c. To which are added, I. tables of interest, at ... 4 I-half, and 5 per cent. from I day to a year. II. Table of Scots money converted into sterling, from I pound Scots to 9000. III. Table of Dutch coin converted into English from I guilder to 3000. IV. Table of Portugal money, from I to 1000 V. Table of expences or wages, by the day, week, month, or year.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]
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The readiest reckoner ever invented, : for assisting the tradesman, the merchant, the gentleman, &c. in finding the amount, at any given price, of any number from one to ten thousand. ... The whole constructed, and separately calculated, / by Stephen Simpson and Edward Wise, accountants.
Simpson, Ludi, 1953-Date: 1811- Books
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The ready reckoner; or, trader's most useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail; Shewing At One View The Amount or Value of any Number or Quantity of Goods or Merchandize, from one Farthing to Twenty Shillings, either by the Long or Short Hundred, Half Hundred, or Quarter, Pound or Ounce, Ell or Yard, &c. &c. In so Plain and Easy a Manner, that Persons quite unacquainted with Arithmetic may hereby ascertain the Value of any Number of Hundreds, Pounds, Ounces, Ells, or Yards, &c. at any Price whatever: And to the most ready in Figures, it will be equally useful by saving much Time in easting up what is here correctly done to their Hand. To which is added, I. A table of Portugal money, from 1 to 1000. II. A table of expenses or Wages by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. III. Tables of interest at 4, 4 1-half, and 5 per Cent, from one Day to a Year.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]