ready reckoner
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ready reckoner
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Coined by English grammarian and textbook writer Daniel Fenning in 1757.
noun ready reckoners · ready-reckoner
- A printed book or table containing precalculated values, often multiples of given amounts. Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts[…]
- A computer program which calculates values; an online calculator.
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