Arithmetick vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise.

Title

Arithmetick vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise.

Author

Mayne, John, fl. 1673-1675.

Publication

London :: printed for J.A. and are to be sold by most book sellers,

1675.

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Subject terms

Interest -- Early works to 1800.

Arithmetic -- Early works to 1800.

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"Arithmetick vulgar, decimal, & algebraical. In a most plain and facile method for common capacities. Together with a treatise of simple and compound interest and rebate; with two tables for the calculation of the value of leases and annuities, payable quarterly; the one for simple, the other for compound interest, at 6. per cent. per annum; with rules for making the like for any other rate. To which is added a new, and most practical way of gauging of tunns. As also the art of cask-gauging, for the use of His Majesties Officers of the Excise." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50423.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• To his Honoured Friend THO. WILLIAMS, M. D. Physician in Ordinary to His S. Majesty.
• THE PREFACE.
• To the Ingenious Author, concerning his DECIMALS.
• On his GAUGING.
• On his worthy Friend Mr. J. Mayne, the Author of this BOOK.
• To his ingenious Friend the Author Mr. John Mayne.
• A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS.
  • The First BOOK.
  • The Second BOOK.
  • The Third BOOK.
• text
  • ARITHMETICK IN Whole Numbers.
    • NOTATION.
    • ADDITION.
    • SUBTRACTION.
    • MULTIPLICATION.
    • DIVISION.
    • REDUCTION.
    • THE RULE OF THREE.
    • THE RULE OF PRACTICE.
  • ARITHMETICK IN DECIMALS.
    • NOTATION.
    • ADDITION.
    • SUBTRACTION.
    • MULTIPLICATION.
    • DIVISION.
    • REDUCTION.
    • section
      • The Vse of the Table.
    • THE GOLDEN RULE.
    • THE DOUBLE GOLDEN RULE.
  • Of the Square Root.
    • Of Quadratique Equations.
  • Of the Cube Root.
• title page
• text
  • Of Simple Interest.
    • Of Mean Time.
  • Of Compound Interest.
    • The Calculation of a Number in the precedent Table, by aid of the Canon.
      • The USE of the TABLE.
    • Six Questions performed by the aid of the Canon of Logarithms.
• title page
• TO THE Young Geometrician.
• The Explanation of the Signs or Characters.
• STEREOMETRY: OR, A New and the most Practical Way of GAUGING TUNNS, &c.
  • DEFINITION.
• title page
• A New Way of GAUGING THE Frustum of a Pyramid, &c.
  • DEFINITION.
  • The Trigon.
  • The Tetragon or Square Pyramid.
  • The Pentagonal Pyramid.
• title page
• text
  • Some Practical RULES & EXAMPLES FOR CASK-GAVGING.
    • The Boung-diameter, and Head-diameter, and Diagonal, to find the Casks length.
    • The Boung-diameter, Diagonal, and Length, to find the Head-diameter.
      • The Rule.
    • The Head-diameter, Boung-diameter, and the Length, to find the Diagonal.
      • The Rule.
      • The Rule.
      • Rule.
• ERRATA.
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