Excerpt from The Standard Arithmetic, Vol. 2 of 2: For Schools of All Grades and for Business PurposesIt has been the aim of the author to make this text-book equal to the most costly as respects facts, principles, processes, and problems, and to make the chapters in general use, such as those on Notation, Denominate Numbers, Common and Decimal Fractions, and Mensuration, even more interesting and more practical than those of the larger volumes, in fine, to furnish a convenient, complete, and cheap manual of arithmetic.For the sake of convenience and economy the work is published in two parts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.