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Page 99 - The teller sat about the middle of the table 5 on his right hand, eleven pennies were heaped on the first bar, and a pile of nineteen shillings on the second ; while a quantity of pounds was collected opposite to him, on the third bar. For the sake of expedition, he might employ a different mark, to represent half the value of any bar, a silver penny for ten shillings, and a gold penny for ten pounds.
Page 99 - ... nineteen shillings on the second, while a quantity of pounds was collected opposite to him, on the third bar. For the sake of expedition he might employ a different mark to represent half the value of any bar, a silver penny for ten shillings, and a gold penny for ten pounds. In early times, a checkered board, the emblem of calculation, was hung out, to indicate an office for changing money. It was afterwards adopted as the sign of an inn or hostelry, where victuals were sold, or strangers lodged...
Page 95 - ... to denote units, tens, hundreds, thousands, &c. The labour of counting and arranging those pebbles was afterwards sensibly abridged, by drawing across the board a horizontal line, above which, each single pebble had the power of five. In the progress of luxury, tali, or dies made of ivory, were used instead of pebbles, and small silver coins came to supply the place of counters. But the operations with...
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| Title | The Philosophy of Arithmetic: Exhibiting a Progressive View of the Theory and Practice of Calculation, with Tables for the Multiplication of Numbers as Far as One Thousand |
| Author | Sir John Leslie |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | W. and C. Tait, 1820 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 20, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0598980741, 9780598980748 |
| Length | 258 pages |
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