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A key to gough's practical arithmetic : In which all the examples necessary for a learner are wrought at large; and also solutions given of all the questions for exercise in the various rules. Designed chiefly for the ease of schoolmasters, and assistance of such as are deprived of the advantage of a teacher; which, together with the practical treatise, so generally approved of, must furnish the most useful and extensive system of arithmetic with which the public have hittherto been favoured. By Robert Telfair, of the Belfast Academy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Telfair, Robert
Corporate Author:	Gale (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Belfast : Printed for the author, by T. Storey; and sold by all the booksellers in Belfast; also, in Dublin by P. Wogan, Old-Bridge; N. Callwell, College-green; and W. Gilbert, Great-George's street, booksellers; and the principal booksellers in Ireland, 1794.
Subjects:	Arithmetic > Early works to 1800. Electronic books.
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