Excerpt from A Plain and Familiar Method for Attaining the Knowledge and Practice of Common Arithmetic: Containing All the Useful Rules Both in Whole Numbers, and Fractions, Vulgar and Decimal, Extraction of the Square and Cube-Roots, Simple and Compound Interest, Annuities, &C Secondly, To affii't tuch young Students as would lay a good Foundation for the attaining of a general Knowledge in the Mathematics, I have in a familiar Method delivered the entire Doftrine of F raétions, both Vulgar and Decimal, which was omitted in the firlt Edition; and have alfo newly framed the Ex-v traé'tion of the Square and Cube-roots, in a Method which by Experience is found to be much eafier than that commonly ufed heretofore, and is exaétly fuit able to the Conftruétion or Competition of Square and Cube Numbers. 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.