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Excerpt from Ne Plus Ultra Interest Tables (Six Per Cent): In Which Are Shown the Interest on Any Sum From One Dollar to Five Hundred Dollars Consecutively, for Any Length of Time, From One Day to Three Hundred and Sixty Days, by Days, and Also From Our Day to Two and Half Years, by Years, Months, and Days Example of the First Mode - Wanted the interest on $47 7 for 195 days. Turn to the table headed $477, and on a line with figure 6, will be found 180, (6 months of 30 days to the month making 180 days, ) theg interest on which, found m the second column, (months, ) 15 14. 31. 00; then turn to figures 15, opposite to which, in the first column, (days, )is together $15 50. 3, say $15. 50, - 3 mills being less than half a cent are thrown aside. To' ascertain how, many months of 30 days there are in 276, or any other number Of days, divide the tens and hundreds by 3, for the months, and the remainder will be days, thus 1. 87, 195, 253, or 329 days, divided by 3 will give m 6 313, 10.29,flsay 2 months and 27, days, 6 months and 15 days, at. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.