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4.50 Shepard: Problems in the Strength of Materials 1.25 Slocum and Hancock: Textbook on the Strength of Materials 3.00 Smith and Gale: Elements of Analytic Geometry 2.00 Smith and Gale: Introduction to Analytic Geometry 1.25 Smith and Longley: Theoretical Mechanics 2.50 Taylor: Elements of the Calculus (Revised and Enlarged Edition) 2.00 Taylor: Plane and Spherical Trigonometry 1.00 Taylor: Plane Trigonometry .75 Taylor and Puryear: Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry 1.25 Wentworth: Advanced Arithmetic 1.00 Wentworth: Analytic Geometry 1.25 Wentworth: College Algebra (Revised Edition) 1.50 Wentworth: Elementary Algebra 1.12 Wentworth: Higher Algebra 1.40 Wentworth: New School Algebra 1.12 Wentworth: Plane and Solid Geometry (Revised Edition) 1.25 Wentworth: Plane Geometry (Revised Edition); Solid Geometry (Revised Edition), each .75 Wentworth: Trigonometries (Second Revised Editions) (For list, see Descriptive Catalogue) Woods and Bailey: A Course In Mathematics Volume I 2.25 Volume II 2.25 * * * * * GINN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS * * * * * Notes al-Mekk[=i] on a treatise on [.g]ob[=a]r arithmetic (explained later) called _Al-murshidah_, found by Woepcke in Paris (_Propagation_, p. 66), there is mentioned the fact that there are "nine Indian figures" and "a second kind of Indian figures ... although these are the figures of the [.g]ob[=a]r writing." So in a commentary by [H.]osein ibn Mo[h.]ammed al-Ma[h.]all[=i] (died in 1756) on the _Mokhta[s.]ar f[=i]`ilm el-[h.]is[=a]b_ (Extract from Arithmetic) by `Abdalq[=a]dir ibn `Al[=i] al-Sakh[=a]w[=i] (died c. 1000) it is related that "the preface treats of the forms of the figures of Hindu signs, such as were established by the Hindu nation." [Woepcke, _Propagation_, p. 63.]
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