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)

Excerpt from 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

Arithmetic is the art of computmg by num bers; these numbers are called Figures, viz.0, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, - 0, of melt has no value, but when joined to the right of other numbers, it increases their value in a tenfold preportion. Thus, 1 is one, 10 is ten, two, 20. 1s twenty.

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