A light to the art of gunnery wherein is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof and action, of all sorts of great ordnance : also the true ball and allowance for wind, with the most necessary conclusions for the practice of gunnery, either in sea or land-service : likewise the ingredients and making of most necessary fire-works, as also many compositions for the gunner's practice, both at sea and land / by Capt. Thomas Binning ...
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A light to the art of gunnery wherein is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof and action, of all sorts of great ordnance : also the true ball and allowance for wind, with the most necessary conclusions for the practice of gunnery, either in sea or land-service : likewise the ingredients and making of most necessary fire-works, as also many compositions for the gunner's practice, both at sea and land / by Capt. Thomas Binning ...
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Binning, Thomas.
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London :: Printed by John Darby for the author, and are to be sold by Andrew Forrester ...,
1676.
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Gunnery -- Early works to 1800.
Artillery -- Early works to 1800.
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"A light to the art of gunnery wherein is laid down the true weight of powder, both for proof and action, of all sorts of great ordnance : also the true ball and allowance for wind, with the most necessary conclusions for the practice of gunnery, either in sea or land-service : likewise the ingredients and making of most necessary fire-works, as also many compositions for the gunner's practice, both at sea and land / by Capt. Thomas Binning ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28175.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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CHAP. II. Addition and Subduction in Decimals.
ADdition and Subduction in Decimals, whether in pure Decimals, or in Integers mixt with Decimals, differ not from Addition and Subduction in Integers, only care must be had to place the separating Lines of the Numbers under one another; as also the places of like denomination under one another; and the separating Lines of the Sum or Difference, must be placed under the separating Lines of the Numbers added, or subducted. See the Examples.
Examples in Addition.
⌊347
⌊268
⌊149
⌊764
⌊8972
⌊643
⌊8
⌊79
3⌊1302
346⌊98
74⌊2
6⌊934
⌊8
⌊07
428⌊984
In Addition and Subduction, let the place of the Fraction remain so many places as they were, and no more.
Example.
Addition.
35⌊72
78⌊05
113⌊77
Subduction.
78⌊25
35⌊75
42⌊50
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Examples in Subduction.
⌊724
⌊482
⌊242
⌊89
⌊5796
⌊3104
⌊6427
⌊36
⌊2827
64⌊279
48⌊384
15⌊895
46⌊2
9⌊746
36⌊454
59⌊872
6⌊9
52⌊972
74⌊0
65⌊98
8⌊02
34⌊2
⌊642
33⌊558
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