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A new system of arithmetic, on the cancelling plan: : embracing the rules of three, single and double, direct and inverse; barter; loss and gain; reduction; multiplication and division of fractions; exchange of currencies; interest: and all proportional questions in one rule applicable to the whole. The process greatly simplified and abridged

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1841.
Call number: 644734
Creator: Burnham, Charles G (1803-1866)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Dennis Dewenter, December 2014. Autograph on front flyleaf: M.F.R.[?] Smith, ...[?], N.H. Folded leaf with ms. annotations and calculations of payments dating to 1840s laid in between pages 310 and 311, removed to PF.
Dimensions: 20 cm
Associated people: Mussey, Benjamin B., (-1857,); Brown, John F., (1804-1879,); McFarland, Asa,
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