ART. 1. Numbers are composed of orders, the value of whose unit increases from right to left in a ten-fold ratio, that is, ten units of any order make one unit of the order next higher. The names of the first twelve orders are as follows:
For convenience in reading or writing numbers, we divide the orders into periods of three figures each. The three orders which compose any period are called Units, Tens, Hundreds of that period. The following table presents the names of the periods and the manner of reading them :
Hundreds,
co Tens,
ce Units,