The Progressive Higher ArithmeticReprint of the original, first published in 1874. |
Contents
Definitions | 11 |
Notation and Numeration | 12 |
Addition | 23 |
Subtraction | 30 |
Powers of Numbers | 39 |
Division | 47 |
117 | 54 |
23 | 60 |
For Subtraction | 212 |
For Multiplication | 221 |
PROPORTION | 227 |
PERCENTAGE | 259 |
175 | 286 |
177 | 295 |
178 | 312 |
179 | 321 |
126 | 61 |
35 | 68 |
145 | 75 |
Greatest Common Divisor | 76 |
Least Common Multiple | 82 |
FRACTIONS | 160 |
Measure of Time | 175 |
English Measures and Weights | 182 |
Definitions Notation and Numeration | 192 |
Addition | 206 |
ALLIGATION 870 | 370 |
INVOLUTION 879 | 379 |
Contracted Method 886 | 386 |
Contracted Method COD 899 | 392 |
Applications of the Square and Cube Roots 898 | 398 |
SERIES | 406 |
Compound Interest by Geometrical Progression | 415 |
MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES | 422 |
Metric System | 429 |
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acres amount ANALYSIS annexed barrels bought bushels ciphers circulating decimal column common fraction compound number contain continued fraction cost cube cubic currency decimal places difference discount Divide dividend division dollars equal exact divisors EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE excess of 9's feet flour following RULE frac gain gallons given number given repetends gold greatest common divisor greatest number Hence the following hundred improper fraction inches integers interest invested least common denominator least common multiple lowest terms measure miles minuend mixed number multiplicand Multiply NOTE number of places number of terms obtain OPERATION payment pounds premium prime factors principles Prob purchase quantity quotient ratio Reduce remainder result right hand figure rods root similar and conterminous sold square standard subtract subtrahend TABLE United States money weight whole number worth write yards