The ready calculator : or, trader's certain guide, in computing the price, or amount of any quantity of goods and merchandizes. Containing, I. A correct large table of the Value of any Quantity of Goods, from I Pound, Yard, &c. to 100, 1000, or 10,000, at all the various Prices, increasing progressively from a Farthing to a Pound. II. -Simple Interest at 5 per Cent. for Days, Months, &c. III. -Commission or Brokerage. IV. -How to buy and sell by the Hund. Weight to Advantage. V. Rules to find the Changes of the Moon, &c. VI. -The Dominical Letters to the Year 1800. Vii. Value of Foreign Coins in Sterling Money. Viii. A Perpetual Diary, shewing the Day of the Week that begins any Month for ever. IX. -Value of the principal European Coins in American Currency. X. -Value of Gold and Silver in England. XI. -The Agreement which Weights and Measures have with each other, all over Europe. XII. -The Weights and Measures used in England. XIII. -English Money equated in Irish, and Irish in English. XIV. Of Annuities on Lives. XV. Catalogue of useful memorandums in Business. The second edition, corrected. By S. Thomas, merchant. Author o f The British negociator, or, Foreign-Exchanges Made Easy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slack, Thomas, 1718 or 1719-1784.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Tables--Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic.

Genre:

Tables.

Tables (Data)

Physical Description:

259 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Robinson and Roberts, No. 25, Pater-Noster Row; and T. Slack, in Newcastle, M.DCC.LXXL. [1771]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

S. Thomas = Thomas Slack, author of The British negociator.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas".

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N13566.

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