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as compared with other arithmetics of the time to the recently adopted decimal " Federal Money," of which he says : —
It is expected that before many years f hall elapfe, this method of reckoning will become general throughout the United States. Let us, I beg of you, Fellow-Citizens, no longer meanly follow the Britifh intricate mode of reckoning. — Let them have their own way — and us, ours. — Their mode is fuited to the genius of the government — for it feems to be the policy of tyrants, to keep their accounts in as intricate, and perplexing a method as poffible ; that the fmaller number of their fubjects may be able to eftimate their enormous impofitions and exactions. But Republican money ought to be fimple and adapted to the meaneft capacity. This mode of reckoning may feem a little odd at firft, but when the coins of the United States come into circulation, it will foon become familiar. |
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Copperplate Engraving on the Title-page of Sarjeant's Arithmetic, 1788. |
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Below are two of the shorter problems in the book: — |
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