Arithmetic: Practically Applied, for Advanced Pupils, and for Private Reference, Designed as a Sequel to Any of the Ordinary Text-books on the Subject |
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Page 40 - In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said vessel hath affirmed to bills of lading, all of this tenor and date ; one of which being accomplished, the others to stand void.
Page 341 - ... the quotient will be the number of tons to be added to the result as above found. In order to ascertain the tonnage of open vessels, the depths are to be measured from the upper edge of the upper strake.
Page 64 - Now, it has been already shown that water is composed of two volumes of hydrogen and one volume of oxygen ; and...
Page 212 - II.—Multiply the principal by the number of days, and divide the product by 6; then point off as in the preceding rule.
Page 269 - To find the number of Permutations or changes, that can be made of any given number of things, all different from each other.- . RULE. Multiply all the terms of the natural series of numbers, from one up to the given number, continually together, and the last product will be the answer required.
Page 357 - If 12 oxen eat up 3^ acres of grass in 4 weeks, and 21 oxen eat up 10 acres in 9 weeks, how many oxen will eat up 24 acres in 18 weeks; the grass being at first equal on every acre, and growing uniformly ? THE END.
Page 67 - Treasury be, and he is hereby, directed to cause a complete set of all the weights and measures adopted as standards to be delivered to the governor of each State in the Union...
Page 269 - Any number of different things being given, to find how many changes can be made out of them, by taking any given number of quantities at a time. RULE.
Page 287 - Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second, is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression 'harmonical proportion...
Page 40 - CONDITION, by , on board the called the , whereof is Master, for this present voyage, now lying in the port of and bound for . To say : [insert description of merchandise] being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and condition, at the aforesaid port of , (the dangers of the seas only excepted,) unto or assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods , with primage and average accustomed.