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It is required to Abbreviate 1152/2592 into its lowest terms, by a certain number which shall divide both Numerator and Denomi∣nator, without any Remainder, the Quoti∣ent
Chamberlain's Arithmetick being a plain and easie explanation of the most useful and necessary art of arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, that the meanest capacity may obtain the knowledge thereof in a very short time : whereunto are added many rules and tables of interest, rebate, purchases, gaging of cask, and extraction of the square and cube roots / composed by Robert Chamberlain, accomptant and practitioner in the mathematicks.
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- Chamberlain's Arithmetick being a plain and easie explanation of the most useful and necessary art of arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, that the meanest capacity may obtain the knowledge thereof in a very short time : whereunto are added many rules and tables of interest, rebate, purchases, gaging of cask, and extraction of the square and cube roots / composed by Robert Chamberlain, accomptant and practitioner in the mathematicks.
- Author
- Chamberlain, Robert, fl. 1678-1679.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for John Clark ...,
- 1679.
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"Chamberlain's Arithmetick being a plain and easie explanation of the most useful and necessary art of arithmetick in whole numbers and fractions, that the meanest capacity may obtain the knowledge thereof in a very short time : whereunto are added many rules and tables of interest, rebate, purchases, gaging of cask, and extraction of the square and cube roots / composed by Robert Chamberlain, accomptant and practitioner in the mathematicks." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31565.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2025.
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of which Divisions shall give the Nu∣merator and Denominator equivalent in the lowest terms.
Divide the Denominator 2592, by the Numerator 1152, and there will remain 288, therefore divide your Divisor 1152 by 288, and there will remain 0, the Di∣visor of this last Division was 288, which is the common number, by which if you divide the Numerator of your given Fra∣ction 1152, the Quotient gives 4 for a new Numerator, by which I likewise do divide the Denominator 2592, and the Quotient gives 9 for a new Denominator, and 0 remains of either of these Divisions, where∣by I find the new Fraction 4/9 is the same in signification as 1152/2592 being equivalent or equal thereunto in the lowest terms it can be reduced to, as was required.