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The welspring of sciences, which teacheth the perfecte worke and practise of arithmeticke both in vvhole numbers & fractions, with such easie and compendious instruction into the saide art, as hath not heretofore been by any set out nor laboured, : Beautified vvith most necessary rules and questions, not onely profitable for marchauntes, but also for all artificers, as in the table doth plainely appere..

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The welspring of sciences, which teacheth the perfecte worke and practise of arithmeticke both in vvhole numbers & fractions, with such easie and compendious instruction into the saide art, as hath not heretofore been by any set out nor laboured, : Beautified vvith most necessary rules and questions, not onely profitable for marchauntes, but also for all artificers, as in the table doth plainely appere..
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Baker, Humfrey, fl. 1557-1587.
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Imprinted at London :: By Henry Denham, for Iames Rowbothum.,
Anno Domini 1564.
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Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
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"The welspring of sciences, which teacheth the perfecte worke and practise of arithmeticke both in vvhole numbers & fractions, with such easie and compendious instruction into the saide art, as hath not heretofore been by any set out nor laboured, : Beautified vvith most necessary rules and questions, not onely profitable for marchauntes, but also for all artificers, as in the table doth plainely appere.." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B07179.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.

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¶Reduction of broken num∣bers of broken.

IF you wyl reduce ye broken of bro∣kē togither, as thus, the ⅔ of 7/4 of ⅘, [unspec 3] you must multiplye the numerators the one by the other to make one bro∣ken number of the thre broken num∣bers, that is to saye 2. by 1. maketh 2. and then 2. by 4. maketh 8. which is your numerator. Then

  8  
⅔ ¼ ⅘
  60.  
multiplye the Denomi∣nators the one by the o∣ther, that is to saye 3. by 4. maketh 12. and then

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12. by 5. maketh 60. for your denomi∣nator, set 8. ouer 60. wt a line betwene them, and they be 1/60 which being ab∣breuied are 2/15 and so much are ye ⅔ of ⅙ of ⅘ as appereth in the margent.

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