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A TEXT-BOOK

OF

ARITHMETIC

FOR USE IN HIGHER CLASS SCHOOLS

BY

THOMAS MUIR, M.A., F.R.S.E.,

MATHEMATICAL MASTER IN THE HIGH SCHOOL OF GLASGOW

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LONDON:

PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED,

CITY ROAD.

PREFACE.

IN writing the present text-book the aim has been to produce a work which should be accurate from the point of view of the mathematician, which should be rational in its mode of treatment as far as this is possible or expedient, which should present the essentials of the subject with the accessories in their proper place as accessories, and which, while suited for the purpose of general mental training, should be equally well adapted as a special preparation for the practical business of life.

Features of detail need not be referred to: an idea of them may be got from an examination of the table of contents, which immediately follows.

The Conclusion, with its notices of books, cannot but be imperfect, both from faults of omission and commission. The attention of teachers who have made a special study of Arithmetic is directed to it, in the hope that they may have the kindness to contribute something to its improvement in the future.

The Exercises have been most carefully worked from the printed book itself, so that the greatest possible accuracy in the Results may be expected. To several gentlemen, and especially to Mr. William Reid, M.A., I am much indebted for help in this direction.

HIGH SCHOOL OF GLASGOW,

1st June, 1878.

T. M.

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