The Intercourse of nations: being a collection of short, correct and easy rules for reducing thirteen different coins and currencies into each other, with a concise method of calculating federal money. : To which is prefixed, a complete system of vulgar and decimal fractions, &c. : [Two lines of quotations]
- Title
- The Intercourse of nations: being a collection of short, correct and easy rules for reducing thirteen different coins and currencies into each other, with a concise method of calculating federal money. : To which is prefixed, a complete system of vulgar and decimal fractions, &c. : [Two lines of quotations]
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- New-York: :: Printed for the author, by G. Forman, no. 46, Wall-Street, opposite the Post-Office,,
- in the 20th year of American independence. [1795]
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- Subject terms
- Money -- Tables.
- Arithmetic -- Early works to 1900.
- Decimal fractions.
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"The Intercourse of nations: being a collection of short, correct and easy rules for reducing thirteen different coins and currencies into each other, with a concise method of calculating federal money. : To which is prefixed, a complete system of vulgar and decimal fractions, &c. : [Two lines of quotations]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N21931.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- PREFACE.
- EXPLANATION OF CHARACTERS MADE USE OF IN CERTAIN CASES FOR THE SAKE OF BREVITY.
- tables
- OF REDUCTION.
- REDUCTION DESCENDING.
- DESCENDING.
- RULE.
- REDUCTION ASCENDING.
- ASCENDING.
- Reduction Descending and Ascending.
- DESCENDING AND ASCENDING.
- TARE AND TRETT.
- TARE AND TRETT.
- OF FRACTIONS GENERALLY.
- VULGAR FRACTIONS.
- ADDITION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS.
- SUBTRACTION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS.
- Multiplication of Vulgar Fractions.
- DIVISION OF VULGAR FRACTIONS.
- THE RULE OF THREE DIRECT, IN VULGAR FRACTIONS.
- The Rule of Three Inverse, in Vulgar Fractions.
- DECIMAL FRACTIONS.
- REDUCTION OF DECIMALS.
- REDUCTION OF DECIMALS.
- To reduce a given decimal, to its proper quantity.
- REDUCTION OF DECIMALS.
- ADDITION OF DECIMALS.
- MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS.
- MULTIPLICATION OF DECIMALS.
- DIVISION OF DECIMALS.
- DIVISION OF DECIMALS.
- The Rule of Three Direct in Decimals.
- OBSERVATION.
- GENERAL RULE.
- To reduce English Sterling into Irish Money, and Irish Money into English Sterling.
- To reduce moidores, into pounds Sterling.
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To reduce Irish money, into English and French crowns—pro∣portion, 13to 48. -
To reduce Dutch or Flemish florins, into New-Hampshire, Mas∣sachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island and Virginia curren∣cies—proportion, 3to 25. -
To reduce Dutch or Flemish florins, into New-York and North-Carolina currencies—proportion, 25to 4. -
To reduce Dutch or Flemish florins, into New-Jersey, Pennsylva∣nia, Delaware and Maryland currencies—proportion, 20to 3. -
To reduce Dutch or Flemish florins, into South-Carolina and Georgia currencies—proportion, 75to 7. -
To reduce French livres, into Frenchguineas—proportion, 24to 1. -
To reduce French livres, into French or English crowns—pro∣portion, 6to 1. -
To reduce French livres, into pounds Sterling—proportion, 24to 1. -
To reduce French livres, into Irish money—proportion, 288to 13. -
To reduce French livres, into English guineas—propor∣tion, 126to 5. -
To reduce French livres, into moidores—proportion, 162to 5. -
To reduce French livres, into Dutch or Flemish florins—propor∣portion 54,to 25. -
To reduce French livres, into Dutch or Flemish guilders—pro∣portion, 9to 4. -
To reduce French livres, into Portugueze half-johannes—propor∣tion, 216to 5. -
To reduce French livres, into dollars and cents—proportion, 27to 5. -
To reduce French livres, into New-York and North-Carolina currencies—proportion, 27to 2. -
To reduce French livres, into New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, De∣laware and Maryland currencies—proportion, 72to 5. -
To reduce French livres, into South-Carolina and Georgia cur∣rencies—proportion, 34 to 14, or 162to 7. -
To reduce Spanish or Federal dollars, into English Sterling— proportion, 40to 9. -
To reduce Spanish or Federal dollars, into Irish money—propor∣tion, 160to 39. -
To reduce Spanish or Federal dollars, into English guineas—pro∣portion, 14to 3. - Reduction of Coins and Currencies.
- Reduction of Coins and Currencies.
- Reduction of Coins and Currencies.
- Reduction of Coins and Currencies.
- Reduction of Coins and Currencies.
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To reduce New-York and North-Carolina currencies, into French livres—proportion, 2to 27. -
To reduce New-York and North-Carolina currencies, into Dutch or Flemish florins—proportion, 4to 25. -
To reduce New-York and North-Carolina currencies, into Dutch or Flemish guilders—proportion, 1to 6. -
To reduce New-York and North-Carolina currencies, into Por∣tugueze half-johannes—proportion, 16to 5. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into dollars and cents—proportion, 3to 8. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into English Sterling—proportion, 5to 3. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into Irish money—proportion, 20to 13. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into English guineas—proportion, 7to 4. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into moidores—proportion, 4to 9. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into English or French crowns, at 111cents each —proportion, 333to 800. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into English or French crowns, at 8s. 4d. 5See the note marked thus to 12. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into French guineas—proportion, 5to 3. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into French livres—proportion, 5to 72. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into Dutch or Flemish florins—proportion, 3to 20. -
To reduce New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland currencies, into Portugueze half-johannes—proportion, 3to 1. -
To reduce South-Carolina and Georgia currencies, into dollars and cents—proportion, 7to 30. - Rules for Calculating Federal Money.
- SUBTRACTION.
- ADDITION.
- Interest on Federal Money.
- CONTENTS.