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Page 81 - The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, are used to...
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Page 219 - Multiply the divisor, thus augmented, by the last figure of the root, and subtract the product from the dividend, and to the remainder bring down the next period for a new dividend.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Adam's New Arithmetic: Arithmetic, in which the Principles of Operating by Numbers are Analytically Explained, and Synthetically Applied... |
| Author | Daniel Adams |
| Publisher | J. Prentiss, 1837 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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