 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the Money Unit will be evident, to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...the yard for measuring cloth, either the inch or the mile had been made the Unit of Measure. II. The most easy ratio of multiplication and division, is... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the Money Unit will be evident, to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...the yard for measuring cloth, either the inch or the mile had been made the Unit of Measure. Corone. 233. By the 9 E. 4. 28. b. 34. HC 49. ab simple reading... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the Money Unit will be evident, to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...the yard for measuring cloth, either the inch or the mile had been made the Unit of Measure. The Spanish Dollar seems to fulfil all these conditions. II.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the Money Unit will be evident, to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...the yard for measuring cloth, either the inch or the mile had been made the Unit of Measure. Coronc. 233. By the 9 E. 4. 28. -b. 34. H. 6. 49. ab simple... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1830 - 488 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the Money Unit will be evident to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...merchant, if instead of the yard for measuring cloth, cither the inch or the mile had been made the Unit of Measure. II. The most easy ratio of multiplication... | |
 | Commerce - 1841 - 596 pages
...up our catalogue of gold, silver, and copper coins. The following extract is from his report : — " The most easy ratio of multiplication and division is that by ten. Every one knows the facility of decimal arithmetic. Every one remembers, that when learning money arithmetic,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 660 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the money Unit will be evident, to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...the yard for measuring cloth, either the inch or the mile had been made the Unit of Measure. II. The most easy ratio of multiplication and division, is... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1854 - 812 pages
...people." la 1784, Mr. Jefferson, on behalf of a committee, also advocated the decimal system, stating : " The most easy ratio of multiplication and division is that by ten. Every one remembers the facility of decimal arithmetic at school, and the bulk of mankind nre school-boys... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1879 - 998 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the money Unit will be evident to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...that by ten. "This paper is printed from a MS. which, as Mr. Dwight informs me, is in the hand of Mr. Charles Thompson, the Secretary of Congress, and which... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1894 - 634 pages
...these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the money Unit will be evident, to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to...the yard for measuring cloth, either the inch or the mile had been made the Unit of Measure. 1 See Jefferson's Autobiography (i, 73) ; Diplomatic Correspondence,... | |
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The value of 100. 1,000. 10,000 dollars is well estimated by the mind ; so is that of the loth or the hundredth of a dollar. Few transactions are above or below these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the money Unit will be evident to... 
