The Federal Calculator; Or, Scholar's Assistant : Containing the Most Concise and Accurate Rules for Performing the Operations in Common Arithmetic; Together with Numerous Examples Under Each of the Rules, Varied So as to Make Them Conform to Almost Every Kind of Business |
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Page 73 - ... multiply the second and third terms together, and divide the product by the first for the answer, which will always be of the same denomination as ftie third term.
Page 157 - Multiply the sum of the two extremes by the number of terms, and half the product will be the sum of all the terms.
Page 20 - When the multiplier is a composite number, (or exactly equal to the product of any two figures in the multiplication table ; — RULE. — Multiply first by one of those figures, and that product by the other, the last product will be the answer.
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| Title | The Federal Calculator; Or, Scholar's Assistant : Containing the Most Concise and Accurate Rules for Performing the Operations in Common Arithmetic; Together with Numerous Examples Under Each of the Rules, Varied So as to Make Them Conform to Almost Every Kind of Business |
| Author | Thomas Tucker Smiley |
| Publisher | J.Grigg, 1830 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 6 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 180 pages |
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