Arithmetic, Practically Applied ...

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E.H. Butler & Company, 1851

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Página 165 - SPECIFIC GRAVITY. THE Specific Gravity of a body, is the ratio of its weight to the weight of an equal volume of some other body assumed as a standard.
Página 271 - To find the number of Permutations or changes, that can be made of any given number of things, all different from each other.- . RULE. Multiply all the terms of the natural series of numbers, from one up to the given number, continually together, and the last product will be the answer required.
Página 359 - ... 24 acres in 18 weeks; the grass being at first equal on every acre, and growing uniformly ? THE END.
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Página 289 - Three lines are in harmonical proportion, when the first is to the third, as the difference between the first and second, is to the difference between the second and third ; and the second is called a harmonic mean between the first and third. The expression 'harmonical proportion...
Página 213 - ... when they are less than ten shillings ; but if they amount to ten shillings or more, they are considered as another pound. If it is desired to compute the percentage exactly, it may be done either by reducing the shillings and pence to the fraction or decimal of a...

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