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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant : In buying and selling all sorts of commodities either wholesale or retail. Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful by saving much time in casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. To which is added, 1. A double table of Portugal money, from 1 to 1000. 2. A table of expences or wages by the day, week, month or year. 3. A table of annuities and commission or brokerage from one to one eighth per cent. The sixth edition, with additions on board and timber measure, brickwork, and gauging by the pen and slip-rule. By Daniel Fenning, (author of the Royal English dictionary, the young measurer's complete guide, young man's book of knowledge. Use of the globes, universal spelling-book, and a new grammar of the English tongue) and others.

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Main Author:	Fenning, Daniel
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for S. Crowder, at No. 12 in Paternoster Row and B. Collins, on the New Canal, in Salisbury, M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]
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The ready reckoner; or Trader's most useful assistant, in buying and selling all sorts of commodities either wholesale or retail : Shewing at one view the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandise from one farthing to twenty shillings, either by the long or short hundred, half hundred or quarter, pound or ounce, ell or yard, &c. &c. In so plain and easy a manner, that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic may hereby ascertain the value of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells or yards, &c. at any price whatever: and to the most ready in figures, it will be equally useful by saving much time in casting up what is here correctly done to their hand. /
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The new universal ready reckoner; or Every trader's infallible guide : Containing, new and complete tables, most carefully cast up, and exhibiting at one point of view the value or amount of any quantity of goods in trade or merchandise, from one farthing to twenty shillings, not only by the pound, ounce, yard, ell, &c. but also by the long or short hundred, half hundred, &c. The whole so calculated, to assist in buying and selling all kinds of commodities, both wholesale and retail, as to be of the greatest use even to those who are acquainted with figures by saving considerable time, the various tables being so accurately executed, that they may with the utmost safety be relied on: and to those who are entirely unacquainted with arithmetic, such plain and easy directions are said down, as cannot fail of making this useful book familiar to every capacity; whereby may be ascertained the exact amount of any number of hundreds, pounds, ounces, ells, yards, &c. whatever may be the price. To which are added, a valuable catalogue of weights, measures, &c. and tables for casting-up wages, by the day, week, month and year. By John Bettesworth, master of the mathematical and naval Academy, Chelsca; and author of The New tables of interest; English grammar epitomized; arithmetic made easy, &c.
by: Bettesworth, John
Published: (1778)