The Prussian Calculator: By which All Business Calculations are Performed by One Rule ; with an AppendixPower Press of E. Shepard, 1846 - 191 páginas |
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12 days 12 feet 15 inches 20 feet 9 months acres answer axle bush bushels cost bushels of wheat cancel cask cause CHAIN RULE ciphers circle circumference cloth cost convex surface cords of wood cube root cylinder decimal fraction denomination that corresponds diame divide divisible divisor dollars equal EXAMPLES factors feet deep feet high feet in length feet long feet wide frustrum fulcrum gain gallons given number GRAIN MEASURE horses improper fraction inches diameter inclined plane inferior denomination left place lever lowest terms man's share measures miles mixed number multiplicand Multiply Nonagon pence perpendicular Place the square pounds power applied prime number principle proportion quotient Reduce Required the interest revolutions per minute rhombus rule screw sexagesimal shillings short arm side slant height square root subtract thick tons triangle vulgar fraction wheel whole number yards cost yards of cloth
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Página 40 - The Rule for casting interest, where partial payments have been made, is to apply the payment, in the first place, to the discharge of the interest then due. If the payment exceeds the interest, the surplus goes toward discharging the principal, and the subsequent interest is to be computed on the balance of principal remaining due. If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of...
Página 136 - There is a fish whose head is 10 inches long, his tail is as long as his head and half the length of his body, and his body is as long as his head and tail. What is the length of the fish...
Página 183 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Página 184 - TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) 1 pennyweight (pwt.) 20 pennyweights, 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces ... 1 pound (Ib.) Troy weight is used in weighing gold, silver, precious stones, etc. APOTHECARIES
Página 29 - If a man travel 240 miles in 12 days, when the days are 12 hours long, in how many days will he travel 720 miles, when the days are 16 hours long? Ans. 27 days.
Página 183 - Scale: 4 farthings (far.) = 1 penny (d.); 12 pence = 1 shilling (s.) ; 20 shillings — 1 pound (£). 156.
Página 147 - Ans. 10 feet. 16. A wall is 32 feet high, and a ditch before it is 24 feet wide ; what is the length of a ladder that will reach from the top of the wall to the opposite side of the ditch ? Ans.
Página 184 - TABLE. 16 Drams (dr.) make 1 Ounce, oz. 16 Ounces " 1 Pound, Ib. 25 Pounds " 1 Quarter, qr. 4 Quarters " 1 Hundred Weight, cwt. 20 Hundred Weight
Página 185 - ... yards, 1 rod, pole, or perch, rd. 40 rods, 1 furlong, fur. 8 furlongs, - . 1 mile, m. 3 miles, 1 league, leo.
Página 105 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction. Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the given numerator.