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ready reckoner
ready reckoner
noun
- a table of numbers used to facilitate simple calculations, esp one for applying rates of discount, interest, charging, etc, to different sums
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ready reckoner1
First recorded in 1750–60
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"It is a ready reckoner to understand where we stand and the impact of land degradation on agricultural productivity."
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“Just so, your honour; I see your honour is a ready reckoner.”
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A few feet away, his father was carefully calculating, with the aid of a ready reckoner, the compound interest on a little pile of bills of exchange which lay before him.
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On large matters he went right by the very largeness of his mind; but in small matters he suffered from the lack of any logical test and ready reckoner.
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It looks like a page out of a ready reckoner or a mathematician's nightmare.
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