A Treatise Of Decimal Arithmetic : Or, Decimals Applied To The Common Rules Of Arithmetic And More

Lopndon: A. Millar in the Strand, M. DCC. LVII.. Good with no dust jacket. 1757. Leather. Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; xi, 266 pages; Here is the fairly decriptive title: A treatise of decimal arithmetic : or, decimals applied to the common rules of arithmetic ; the Computation and Arbitration of Exchanges ; Interest, Simple and Compound ; Annuities for Years certain ; also on Lives. With the Doctrine of Circulating or Repeating Decimals. The Whole Interspersed with several short and new Methods of answering Questions relating to Trade and Business ; and shewing throughout that most Computations therein are much easier performed by Decimals than by Whole Numbers. Adapted to the use of schools and the man of business. By R. Gadesby, Writing-Master and Accountant. Hedre is the description: boards worn with back cover lacking the marbled paper covering and spine tattered, contents worn but not marked or torn. Original or contemporary binding. Barely good. OCLC Number: 928174972. Not a common work, Worldcat locates just 4 copies in the world libraries, .