The Complete Measurer: Or, The Whole Art of Measuring. In Two Parts. The First Part Teaching Decimal Arithmetick, with the Extraction of Square and Cube Roots... The Second Part Teaching to Measure All Sorts of Superficies and Solids, by Decimals... The Fourteenth Edition. To which is Added, An Appendix. 1. of Gauging. 2. of Land-measuring..J. and F. Rivington, L. Hawes and W. Clarke and R. Collins [and others], 1775 - Arithmetic - 346 pages |
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Page 343 - Methodically digested, as well for the Entertainment of the Curious, as the Information of the Ignorant, and for the Benefit of young Students, Artificers, Tradesmen and Foreigners, who are desirous thorowly to understand what they Speak, Read, or Write.
Page 204 - ... should be let into the walls at each end about two-thirds of the wall's thickness. In boarded flooring, the dimensions must be taken to the extreme parts, and the number of squares of 100 feet must be calculated from these dimensions.
Page 212 - ... 1. If a wall be 72 feet 6 inches long, and 19 feet 3 inches high, and 5 bricks and a half thick, how many rods of brick-work are contained therein, when reduced to the standard ? ft.
Page 221 - If a ceiling be 59 feet 9 inches long, and 24 feet 6 inches broad, how many yards doth that ceiling contain ? Ans.
Page 209 - Of Tiling or Slating. Tiling and slating are measured by the square of 100 feet, as flooring, partitioning and roofing were in the Carpenters' work ; so that there is not much difference between the roofing and tiling; yet the tiling will be the most ; for the bricklayers sometimes will require to have double measure for hips and valleys. When gutters are allowed double measure, the way is to measure the length along the ridge-tile, and add it...
Page 207 - Houfe, and half the Flat thereof, taken within the Walls, is equal to the Meafure of the Roof of the fame Houfe; but...
Page 25 - In this Example, the Unit's Place of the Divifor falls under the Hundred's Place in the Dividend, and it is required, that three Places of Decimals be in the Quotient, fo there muft be fix Places in all; that is, three Places of whole Numbers, and three Places of Decimals. Then...
Page 85 - Multiply the whole Perimeter, or Sum of the Sides, by half the Perpendicular let fall from the Centre to the Middle of one of the Sides ; or multiply the half Perimeter by the whole Perpendicular, and the Produel is the Area.
Page 209 - ... projector is over the plate, which is commonly about 18 or 20 inches. Sky-lights and chimney shafts are generally deducted, if they be large, otherwise not. Example 1. There is a roof covered with tiles, whose depth on both sides (with the usual allowance at the eaves) is 37 feet 3 inches, and the length 45 feet; how many squares of tiling are contained therein ? US DUODECIMALS.
Page 88 - A Circle is a plain figure contained under one line, which is called a circumference ; unto which all lines, drawn from one point within the figure, and falling upon the circumference thereof, are equal the one to the other. XVI. And that point is called the center of the circle. XVII. A Diameter of a circle is a right-line drawn thro...