This section gives a worked example of marking up a quantity by a rate.
The relevant unit conversions for capacity are
See Vol. I §3 (Units of capacity).
Chinese source text: Version A, Version B, Version C, Version D.
Unless noted otherwise, I follow the text from Version D, 《知不足齋叢書》本.
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今有粟二千三百七十四斛、斛加三升。問共粟幾何。 | Suppose there be grain two thousand three hundred [and] seventy-four barrels, [and for each] barrel [we] add three quarts. [We] ask, how much [be the] grain altogether? | |
答曰、二千四百四十五斛二斗二升。 | Answer saith: two thousand four hundred [and] forty-five barrels, two pecks, [and] two quarts. | |
術曰、置粟二千三百七十四斛、以一斛三升乘之、即得。 | Method saith: put [down the] grain two thousand three hundred [and] seventy-four barrels; multiplying it by one barrel [and] three quarts, [we] are done. |
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