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| Title | The Practical Arithmetic: In which the Principles of Operating by Numbers are Analytically Explained and Synthetically Applied ... |
| Contributor | T. H. Babcock |
| Publisher | G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1829 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 180 pages |
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