Cotsworth's "DIRECT CALCULATOR" (Series O), containing over 1,000,000 distinct calculations, for expediting and ensuring accuracy in multiplication, division, average, percentage, interest, exchange, and general calculation by all combinations of numbers from 1 to 1,000 arranged for instant and "direct" reference by marginal indices, &c.
by Cotsworth, M(oses) B
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- first
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About This Item
London: McCorquodale & Co. Ltd, 1903. Stated second edition. with three dupicate tables laid in. Olive buckram, gilt print top, marbled eps. Super Royal 4to. pp. [1] ad, [ii], 36, [400], tables v, w, x, a, chart y, z laid in (exchange values). VG-/No jacket/Ex-Lib. Technical bookplate and some rubber stamps throughout, several bumped corners, rear joint has cloth tear. All tabs present, internally NF. Second edition improves tables of "constant multipliers". Includes first edition errata, rectified in second..
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- Cotsworth's "DIRECT CALCULATOR" (Series O), containing over 1,000,000 distinct calculations, for expediting and ensuring accuracy in multiplication, division, average, percentage, interest, exchange, and general calculation by all combinations of numbers from 1 to 1,000 arranged for instant and "direct" reference by marginal indices, &c.
- Author
- Cotsworth, M(oses) B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: McCorquodale & Co. Ltd, 1903.
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