Excerpt from A Complete Treatise on Practical Arithmetic, And, Book-Keeping: Both by Single and Double Entry; Adapted to the Use of Schools In the extraction of roots, I have given a new, gene-4r ral, and very expeditious method, by'which the third and higher roots may be found, without the intolerable labour attending the common methods. 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.