True American. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1835-18??, 1839-03-02
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JUST PUBLIsHEDF FROM STEREOTYPE PLiTES'
The FIN Edition o;
ROWIEr"r's TABLES OF INTEREST,"
YIlO which is new added Average Time Caieuia'
Il tor, easy methods for finding the average ''me
on storage, notes of haad or bills Of goods when mr.
chased at different dates different credits, and Tor
various amounts; besides useful and complete banking
Time TABLE, the best That can be con,rivetl. or that IL
cures prnluce within the same condcsenl compass
and size oftypc
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versement, TO gvca condensed view OF OF its Pc
cnar'ies: fcrinstance, the Interest has been compos-
cd from, and compared with, what is equivalent to four
teen sets ef calculations, examined in the press thirty
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hrtyty-one times, from all which it mnsi be evident
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One Of tho most conspicuous features of the tables is
NTH arrangement of the Time and Amounts, which
for expci,inns reference ontl perspe,itv with the help
OF the side and index, cannot be cXceilcd and the salty
ty and ease with which the interest be found the
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IS cu,iouly under his own correction of proof sheets
would almost to certainty, have been Unsafe for
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Ellp explains But so perfect and valuable have Tho
Stereotype plates OF TINS workibcen maze, that tosvcnr'
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n filth as in he tws nrcccIinr editions. contain much in
I'd formation concerning the two law full modes of compn,
h lug inter SIS, tee days af grace &c.
iu I,rrmans only to remark thai, Notwithstanding Iii
" n"eom'""'y costly work, which wasunb,l'c| hcl"
T. interest tables were introduced IN 'loars aud cents be
m .cn an almanac hashecn so extensively ,'h sniibcrall
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