| Claudius Crozet - Arithmetic - 1857 - 192 pages
....ten characters called figures. 4. What are these characters 1 They are 1 called one, 2 " two, 3 " three, 4 " four, 5 " five, 6 " six, 7 " seven, 8 " eight, 9 " nine, 0 " naught, cipher, or zero. 5. How are the first nine characters called? They are called significant... | |
| Charles Guilford Burnham - 1857 - 342 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... | |
| Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1858 - 346 pages
...alphabet yf lite Arabic Notation. They are, 0 called zero, cipher, or Naught, 1 - - One. 2 - Two. 3 - - Three. '4 - - Four. 5 - - Five. 6 - - Six. 7 - - Seven. 8 - - Eight. 9 - - Nine. 1 expresses a single thing, or the unit of a number. 2 -. two things - -or two units. 3 - three things... | |
| David Price - Arithmetic - 1858 - 264 pages
...numbers, Numeration from Numerus, (Latin.) 3. The figures we use in numbering are: 1, one; 2, two; 3, three ; 4, four ; 5, five ; 6, six ; 7, seven ; 8, eight ; 9, nine ; and 0, naught, or cipher. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, are called significant figures ; 0 is called... | |
| James B. Dodd - Arithmetic - 1859 - 368 pages
...numbers by numeral 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 0 zero or cipher, which has no value. 0 is used to occupy vacant places in Notation. The Higher... | |
| Wales - 1861 - 370 pages
...under the common figures of civilised nations, that are under belief and baptism. " 1 One, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, 0 ten ; and before the 0 the number it bears ; as one ten 10 ; 20 two tens, 30 three tens, 40 four... | |
| James Haddon - Arithmetic - 1862 - 358 pages
...they are in reality perfectly distinct. The characters used for this purpose, are 1, one ; 2, two ; 3, three ; 4, four ; 5, five ; 6, six ; 7, seven ; 8, eight ; 9, nine ; 0, cipher or nought. These figures have various values, depending upon their situation as in the... | |
| John Williams ab Ithel, John Williams - Bards and bardism - 1862 - 526 pages
...under the trite signs of number in use by the civilized nations of Belief and Baptism. 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, 0 ten, and placing before the 0 the number which it has, thus, 10 one-ten, 20 two-tens, 30 three-tens,... | |
| Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1863 - 600 pages
...introduced into Europe by the Moors about eight or nine hundred years since : viz. 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 six, 7 seven, 8 eight, 9 nine, 0 cipher or nothing. These characters or figures were formerly all called by the general name of Ciphers;... | |
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