Specimens of abbreviated numbers, or, an introduction to an entire new species of arithmetic: calculated in a more especial manner for the counting-house and public offices, particularly the Customs, Exchequer, and Excise: The Principle being founded on a New Method of finding the Decimal for any Coin, Weight, or Time, &c. &c. By one single Multiplication only, without the use of Vulgar Fraction. And also (on a Method bitherto undiscovered) of finding the Interest of any Sum, at any Rate, and for any Time: By one single Multiplication, not exceeding three Figures, without the Assistance of Statings, or Reference to Tables: Reducing the whole Body of Arithmetic, (so far as it relates to General Calculations) to a Synopsis confin'd to the Four first Rules of Arithmetic. The whole founded on a Principle hitherto unattempted, and now first offered to the Public. by William Weston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weston, William, schoolmaster.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.

Arithmetic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,58,[2]p. )

Other Title:

Specimens of abbreviated numbers,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for the author: and sold by C. Marsh, at Chairing-Cross; T. Meighan, in Drury-Lane; Richardson and Urquhart, booksellers, under the Royal-Exchange, [1765?]

Notes:

With a final errata leaf.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price Bound Four Shillings.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T3135.

OCLC:

642565246