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Excerpt from The Merchants and Mechanics' Commercial Arithmetic, or Instantaneous Method of Computing Numbers
To obtain the magnitude of a quantity we com pare it with a part of the same; this part is im printed in our mind as a unit, by which the whole is measured and conceived. No quantity can be measured by a quantity of another kind, but any quantity can be compared with any other quantity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
