100 AFT OF READING AND WRITING. TABLE XII1.-.q Table of Number's and Figures. NUMBERS are usually expressed either by these seven Roman capital letters, I. V. X. L. C, D. M. which are ,ca l 5 . e numerals, or by these ten characters, namely, 1, 2, 4, e 6, 7, S, 9, whiçh are called figures, and 0, which is called a cypher. Their Signification. I. One V. Five X. Ten L. Fifty C. One Hundred D. Five Hundred M. A Thousand 1. One 2. Two 3. Three 4. Four 5. Five 6. Six 7. Seven 8. Eight 9. Nine 0. Nothing Observeconcerning the numeral letters, that if a less nu- meral letter be placed before a greater, it takes away from the greater so much as the lesser stands for ; but being placed after a greater, it adds so much to it as the lesser stands for : as the letter V. stands for five; but having I placed before it, it takes one from it, and makes both stand but for four: thus, IV. But I being set after V. it adds one to it, and make it six, VI. Take noticeof these examples. IV. Four V. Five VI. Six IX. Nine X. Ten XI. Eleven XL. Forty L. Fifty LX. Sixty XC. Ninety C. Hundred CX. Hundred & ten Observe concerning the characters or figures, that cyphers at theright-handof figures increase their value ten times, as 1 one, 10 ten, 100 hundred, 7 seven, 7000, seven thousand : but at the left-hand theysignify nothing at all, as 01, 001, make but one, 0002 is but two. A figure at every remove from from the right-hand increases its value ten times, as 9 nine, 98 ninety-eight, 987 nine hundred and eighty-seven. L One I. 2. Two II. 3. Three III. 4. Four IV. 5. Five V. 0. Six VI.
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