The compendious measurer: being a brief, yet comprehensive, treatise on mensuration and practical geometry By Charles Hutton Excerpt from The Compendious Measurer: Being a Brief, Yet Comprehensive, Treatise on Mensuration, and Practical Geometry; With an Introduction to Decimal and Duodecimal Arithmetic; Adapted to Practice, and the Use of Schools Set the numbers under each other according to the value of their places, as in whole numbers, or (0 that the decimal points {land direfily below each other. Then add as in whole numbers, placing the decimal point in the {urn firaight below the other points. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work.

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