Excerpt from Treatise on the Art of Measuring; Containing All That Is Useful in Bonnycastle, Hutton, Hawney, Ingram, and Several Other Modern Works on Mensuration; To Which Are Added Trigonometry, With Its Application to Heights and Distances; Surveying; Gauging, 1831 Ex. 9. Reduce 3 roods 11 poles to the decimal of an acre. Ans. 81875. The decimal of one denomination may be reduced to whole numbers of lower denominations, as in the reduction of quan tities of a higher denomination to a lower, observing, after each multiplication, to point of for decimals as many figures towards the right as there were figures in the given decimal. The figures on the left hand if the decimal points will be the whole numbers required. 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.