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The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
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The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy

Date1770
Names
Alternate Title
  • Arithmetick, or British youth's instructor, or New and easy guide to practical arithmetic
Format
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Dimensions17 x 10 cm
Extent
  • 17 x 10 cm
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Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131009543083D
Dewey NumberBI FEN