Tables of foreign exchanges: and weights and measures of the principal trading places in Europe equated: with remarks on decimal currency, Volume 26 |
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Page 132 - America being 109|"§ per cent, it follows that the exchange is 1-08 per cent. against England; but the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference.
Page 186 - To multiply a decimal by 10, 100, 1,000, and so on (such numbers are called powers of 10), we move the decimal point the same number of places to the right as the number of zeros in the power of 10.
Page 132 - York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the above difference." The real par of exchange between two countries is that by which an ounce of gold in one country can be replaced by an ounce of gold of equal fineness in the other country.
Page 129 - J pounds currency =100 pounds sterling. To reduce this currency into sterling, multiply by 3, and divide by 4. In Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania...