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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... cent . , for any given time , in one - tenth of the time that the best calculators will compute it by the rules laid down in other books . By using our rules , you can entirely avoid the use of fractions , and save the calculation of 75 ...
... cent . , for any given time , in one - tenth of the time that the best calculators will compute it by the rules laid down in other books . By using our rules , you can entirely avoid the use of fractions , and save the calculation of 75 ...
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... cents in a memorandum , ledger , or day - book , the beginner should add with red ink , so as to determine readily the new column from the original . MULTIPLICATION . MULTIPLICATION , in its most general sense , is a series of additions ...
... cents in a memorandum , ledger , or day - book , the beginner should add with red ink , so as to determine readily the new column from the original . MULTIPLICATION . MULTIPLICATION , in its most general sense , is a series of additions ...
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... cent or more , they call it an- other cent ; if less than half a cent , they drop it . And the object of the following rule is to show the business man the easiest and most rapid process of finding the product to the nearest unit of any ...
... cent or more , they call it an- other cent ; if less than half a cent , they drop it . And the object of the following rule is to show the business man the easiest and most rapid process of finding the product to the nearest unit of any ...
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... cent . he would gain if he re- tailed the hats at a certain price . To tell what an article should retail for to make a profit of 20 per cent . , RULE . - Divide what the articles cost per dozen by 10 , which is done by removing the ...
... cent . he would gain if he re- tailed the hats at a certain price . To tell what an article should retail for to make a profit of 20 per cent . , RULE . - Divide what the articles cost per dozen by 10 , which is done by removing the ...
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... cent . on the cost . If they cost $ 31.00 per dozen , they should be sold at $ 3.10 apiece , etc. We take 20 per cent . as the basis for the following reasons , viz .: because we can determine instantly , by simply removing the decimal ...
... cent . on the cost . If they cost $ 31.00 per dozen , they should be sold at $ 3.10 apiece , etc. We take 20 per cent . as the basis for the following reasons , viz .: because we can determine instantly , by simply removing the decimal ...
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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 80 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...
Page 183 - OF TIME. 60 Seconds = 1 Minute 60 Minutes «= 1 Hour 24 Hours => 1 Day 7 Days = 1 Week 28 Days =• 1 Lunar Month...
Page 183 - CUBIC MEASURE 1728 cubic inches = 1 cubic foot 27 cubic feet = 1 cubic yard...
Page 144 - To measure a Parallelogram, or long square. RULE. Multiply the length by the breadth, and the product will be the area or superficial content.
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.
Page 182 - The quarters are divided in the same way. The description of a forty acre lot would read : The south half of the west half of the south-west quarter of section 1 in township 24, north of range 7 west, or as the case might be ; and sometimes will fall short and sometimes overrun the number of acres it is supposed to contain.
Page 132 - ... broad; what length must a ladder be to reach from the outside of the ditch to the top of the castle?
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...