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THE ARITHMEI IL Or REAL Lllk.

I. The Tables of Weights 'and Measures, eorrected ihroUghout,
and adapted to modern usage.
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3. More .bxampleit under ads Rule than are to be found in any
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4. Logarithms applied to Calculations of Annuities, Com-
pound Interegr, &c.
This day was published, price Bs. 6d. bound, with the full'aliew-
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ance to Schools, . •
A
SYSTEM of PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC:
applicable to the present State of Trade and Money Tran
qactions, illustrated by numerous Examples, under each Rule,
chiefly adapted to the use of Schools. _

By the Rev. 3. JOYCE, Author of Scientific Dialogues, &c.
This new Arithmetic is Intended to obviate the comphdat that
every Youth on his leaving School and entering into the. Count•
ing-house has more to unlearn Jhan be has learnt relatfie to thi.
'actual calculations of businoss. Every Rule, and every ExaniPle,
is dratefrouTtalpracrice in the various branches of Trade, and
themeless andtobsolete Rules which have hitherto disfigured our
Bons of Arithmetic, have given place in the present system, to
the usages of real life.
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