 | Hugo Reid - 1853 - 144 pages
...how many." How do you write down numbers 1 By means of marks called figures, namely, 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, and 0, called a cipher or nought. Explain how many each of these figures means. What is the use of... | |
 | Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1853 - 622 pages
...? What is quantity ) What is a unit ? What is a concrete number ? What is an abstract number ? • three ; 4, four ; 5, five ; 6, six ; 7, seven ; 8, eight ; 9, nine ; 0, cipher. The first nine figures are called significant, because they have a given value assigned... | |
 | James B. Dodd - 1853 - 398 pages
...characters or figures. These Figures—sometimes called the digits of numbers—are 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, and the 0 zero or cipher, which denotes nothing. The figures from 1 to 9 inclusive, are significant;... | |
 | Charles D. Lawrence - Arithmetic - 1854 - 336 pages
...The characters which are generally employed are called figures. These figures are, 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, 0 cipher or nothing. By combining'these figures in different ways, they can be made to express any... | |
 | William Scott - Arithmetic - 1854 - 232 pages
...order immediately superior to those of that other figure. The symbols employed are 1 (one), 2 (two), 3 (three), 4 (four), 5 (five), 6 (six), 7 (seven), 8 (eight), 9 (nine). Besides these it is necessary that there be a figure without value to occupy the place of the units... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1855 - 380 pages
...characters as we have separate words. The only signs in use are the following : 1 means one ; 2, two ; 3, three ; 4, four ; 5, five ; 6, six ; 7, seven ; 8, eight ; 9, nine.* When any one of these figures is found alone, and in this form, it only stands for one of the first... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1856 - 450 pages
...express \ What are the other figures called ? They are, 0 called zero, cipher, or Naught. 1 - - One. 2 Two. 8 ... Three. 4 - - - Four. 5 Five. 6 Six. 7 ... Seven. 8 Eight. 9 - - - Nine. The cipher 0, expresses no value. It is used to denote the absence of a thing. The nine other figures are... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1856 - 80 pages
...in a bucket from the well by a rope. NUMBER. FIGURE. NAME. | . . 1 . . One | . . 2 . . Two . . 3 . . Three . . 4 . . Four*' | | . . 5 . . Five . . 6 ..... . 7 . . Seven • . . 8 . . Eight . . 9 . . Nine . . 10 . . Ten 1 May I try to do a sum ? Yes. Can you add up one and one ? Yes, I can do that in my... | |
 | Noble Heath - Arithmetic - 1856 - 472 pages
...adding a unit at a time, in forming what is called, the Scale of Natural Numbers : thus, 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, &c. It is easy to see that, in this scale, the numbers are odd and even ad infinitum (ad infmitum or... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1857 - 328 pages
...Art. 3. — Notation is the expressing of any number or quantity by figures ; thus, 1 one ; 2 two ; 3 three ; 4 four ; 5 five ; 6 six ; 7 seven ; 8 eight ; 9 nine ; 0 cipher. The first nine figures are sometimes called digits, from the Latin word digitus, which... | |
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Los números cardinales 0: zero 1: one 2: two 3: three 4: four 5: five 6: six 7: seven 8: eight 9: nine 10: ten 11: eleven 12: twelve 13: thirteen 14: fourteen 15: fifteen 16: sixteen 17: seventeen 18: eighteen 19: nineteen 20: twenty... 
