Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic: Wherein Every Principle Taught Is Explained in a Simple and Obvious Manner; Containing Numerous Questions, and Combining the Useful Properties of Former Works, With the Modern Improvements; Being a Complete System to Which Is Added Two Methods of Book-Kee
Federal Money and Compound Numbers succeed Com mon and Decimal Fractions whence the scholar, in Federal Money, learns no new rule, but merely applies the principles that govern Decimal Fractions and in Compound Numbers, he employs Common and Decimal Fractions In the same manner as in other cases.
There are many similar improvements no subject being introduced until every thing necessary to be known before, has been explained in its proper place. NO article is mutilated or superficially described but every thing im portant to be known concerning it is fully and fairly stated.
As examples to be performed in the mind furnish a very useful and necessary exercise, we have given an adequate number, and have interspersed them throughout the work, in appropriate places, so as to afford a pleasing variety, and illustrate the different parts.
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