Orton's Lightning Calculator, and Accountant's Assistant: The Shortest, Simplest, and Most Rapid Method of Computing Numbers, Adapted to Every Kind of Business, and Within the Comprehension of Every One Having the Slightest Knowledge of FiguresT.K. Collins, 1866 - 194 pages |
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12 days 20 per cent 60 days acres add the product add the ratio adding aliquot annex base breadth cancel carry circle X circumference completes the product computing interest contain cost cube number cube root cubic feet cubic inches decimal places diameter divide divisible divisor left equal EXAMPLE factors feet long find the interest find the solidity fractions frustum given number gives the interest GUNTER'S CHAIN half hence hight integers joists measure method minuend mixed number mode multi multiple of 9 multiplicand multiply any number multiply the principal nearest unit NOTE number of days number of months operation pounds quotient radix rate per cent reduced remainder Required the interest result rule RULE.-Divide RULE.-Multiply side simply say single line solid content square number square root subtract thickness troy pound troy weight unit figure usury vulgar fractions weight whole number yards แ แ
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Page 145 - Or, in measuring boards, you may multiply the length in feet by the breadth in inches, and divide the product by 12 ; the quotient will give the answer in square feet, etc. 21x18 Thus, in the last example, =31£sq, ft., us before. 12 5. If a board be 8 inches wide, how much in length will make a foot square ? RULE.
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Page 143 - EXAMPLES. 1. How many square feet of boards are contained in the floor of a room which is 20 feet square?
Page 131 - Ans, 327 As the unit figure, in this example, is 9, if the number is a square, it must divide by either 9, or 49. After dividing by 9 we have 11881 for the other factor, a prime number, therefore its root is a prime number=109.
Page 42 - CENTS. Now, as removing the decimal point one place to the left, on the cost of a dozen articles, gives the selling price of a single one with 20 per cent, added to the cost, and, as the cost of any article is 100 per cent., it is obvious that the selling price would be 20 per cent, more, or 120 per cent. ; hence, to find 50 per cent, profit, which would make the selling price 150 per cent., we would first find 120 per cent., then add 30 per cent...