Ready-reckoners - Early works to 1800
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Tables of interest , at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From £.1 to £.10,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days. With tables, at all the above rates, from 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years Also, Tables, Shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, &c. from ? to 5 per Cent. And Tables, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, Expence, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year; and a new Table, ascertaining what Time a Sum of Money takes to double itself, (or the Interest to become equal to the Principal), at all the different Rates of Interest. To Which are Prefixed; A Table of Discount on Bills, at a certain number of Days or Months; and a Table shewing the exact number of Days from any Day throughout the Year to 31st December, the usual Period to which Interest is calculated. The sixth edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accountant in Edinburgh, Author of the Universal Calculator, And Tables for Calculating the Prices of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- E-books
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The Federal or new ready reckoner, and traders useful assistant; in buying and selling all sorts of commodities, either wholesale or retail adapted to the federal money shewing at one view the amount or value of any number of quantity of goods or merchandise, from half cent to one dollar and upwards either by weight or measure, together with interest tables &c. in so plain and easy a manner that persons quite unacquainted with arithmetic, may hereby ascertain the value in federal money, of any quantity of goods in weight or measure, at any price whatever.
Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- E-books
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Tables of interest , at 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent. From 1 to 365 days, from 1 to 12 Months, and from 1 to 10 Years. Which, by directions given, answer for all other rates from 1 to 10 per Cent. Also, Tables, shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, from ? to 3 per Cent. To which is prefixed, A Table, shewing the Exchange allowed by the purchaser of a bill payable at a certain number of days or months. The second edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accomptant, Edinburgh.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- E-books
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Fenning's complete 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 Merchandize, 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 are added, I. A table of Portugal money, from One to One Thousand. II. A table of expences or wages, by the Day, Week, Month, or Year. III. Tables of interest, at 4, 41/2, and 5 per Cent. from one Day to a Year.
Daniel FenningDate: 1793- E-books
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Tables of [i]nterest, at 3, 4, 4 1/2, and 5 per cent . From ?.1 to ?.10,000, and from 1 to 365 days, in a regular progression of single days. With tables, at all the above rates, [f]rom 1 to 12 months, and from 1 to 10 years. Also, Tables, Shewing the Exchange on Bills, or Commission on Goods, &c. from ? to 5 per Cent. And Tables, shewing the Amount of any Salary, Income, Expence, &c. by the Day, Week, Month, or Year; and a new Table, ascertaining what Time a Sum of Money takes to double itself (or the Interest to become equal to the Principal), at all the different Rates of Interest. To Which Are Prefixed, A Table of Discount on Bills, at a certain number of Days or Months; and a Table shewing the exact number of Days from any Day throughout the Year to 31st December, the usual Period to which Interest on open Accounts is calculated. The sixth edition, with additions. By John Thomson, Accountant in Edinburgh, Author of the Universal Calculator, And Tables for Calculating the Prices of Grain.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]