The tutor's assistant; being a compendium of arithmetic and a complete question-book. Containing I. Arithmetic in whole numbers; being a brief explanation of all its rules, in a new and more concise method than any hitherto published; with an application to each rule, consisting of a large variety of questions in real business, with their answers annexed. II. Vulgar fractions, which are treated with a great deal of plainness and perspicuity, III. Decimals, with the extraction of the square, cube, and biqudrate roots, after a very plain and familiar manner; in which are set down rules for the easy calculation of interest, annuites, and pensions in arrears, the present worth of annuities, &c. either by simple or compound interest. IV. Duodecimals, or multiplication of feet and inches, with examples applied to measuring and working by multiplication, practice, and decimals. V. The mensuration of circles, &c. VI. A collection of questions set down promiscuously, for the greater trial of the f

People / Organizations

• Francis Walkingame (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for J. Scatcherd, and I. Whitaker, successors to E. Johnson, Ave-Maria-Lane, 1793.

Publication year

1793

ESTC No.

T225135

Grub Street ID

247117

Description

[12],189,[3]p.,table ; 12°.

Note

The table is engraved.

Uncontrolled note

Frontis. = table