The American Arithmetic, Adapted to the Currency of the United States: To Which Is Added a Concise Treatise on the Mensuration of Planes and Solids, Compiled for the Use of Schools, &C (Classic Reprint)

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In several rules have been inserted; and the Decimal Tables of Weights and Measures, and the Tables of the Monies of the World have been expunged, and a shun and easy system of gookrkeeping, suitable for the Far. Met, the Mechanic, and der, hate been inserted in their stead; the rest of the work in this editionbis similar to thq. Third edition, excepting a-i'ew errors have been corrected: And while the Author acknowledges his grateful thanks to the public for the kind reception of the former editions of this work, he solicits a continu ance oi their! Favours, and flatters himself that this edi tion will be received with an increased confidence in the meritsoffithe a'arlthm'etlu is the ar oi °cotnputing byenum hers; these numbers are called Figures, viz. 0, l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, - 0, of itself has no value, but when joined to the right of other'numbers, it increases their value in a. Tenfold proportion. Thus, I is one, 10 is ten, 2 is two, 20 is twenty.

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