A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, Adapted to the Commerce of the United

Michel Walsh

ISBN 10: 0331707217 / ISBN 13: 9780331707212

Published by Forgotten Books, 2017

About this Item

Print on Demand. This book offers early 19th-century mercantile business instruction, demonstrating principles and techniques for general commercial calculations, which were the basis of commercial arithmetic during this time period. The author's approach is practical, including practice questions with answers for students' self-assessment. The book's scope is broad, and it covers a wide range of topics essential to the business world at the time, including numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, reduction, British and American currencies, weights and other measures, compound arithmetic, mixing and bartering of goods, and solving problems with factors. The author's insights into these topics are rendered accessible through straightforward language, avoiding complex mathematical formulae and jargon. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, Adapted to the Commerce of the United
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331707217
• ISBN 13: 9780331707212
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: print-on-demand item
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Mathematics

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Synopsis

Excerpt from A New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, Adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in Its Domestic and Foreign Relations: With Forms of Accounts, and Other Writings Usually Occurring in Trade

This impression has received several valuable additio under the general head of Exchange, including the enis ing exchange with Antwerp, Trieste, Genoa, Venic Barcelona, and Palermo in Sicily, and many useful rule under each of these particular heads. A new subject i likewise added,entitled arbitration or exchange,' the importance of which will easily be seen by Merchant whose remittances may travel-through several countrie and be liable to the rates of Exchange in each.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.