 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1849 - 438 pages
...employs seven capital letters, viz : I, V, X, L, C, D, M. When standing alone, the letter I, denotes one ; V, five ; X, ten ; L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand. To express the intervening numbers from one to a thousand, or any number larger than a thousand, we... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1850 - 352 pages
...capital letters, viz : I, V, X5 L, Gj D? M. When standing alone, the letter I denotes one-; V,five; X, ten; L, fifty ;. C, one hundred; D^ five hundred; M, one thousand. To express the intervening numbers from one to a thousand, or any number larger than a thousand, we... | |
 | James Robinson (jr.) - Arithmetic - 1851 - 98 pages
...books, sections, &c. Seven letters are used, viz., I, V, X, L, C, D, and M. The letter I expresses one; V, five; X, ten; L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred; and M, one thousand. All numbers can be expressed by these ten figures, or seven letters, by combining... | |
 | James Robinson (jr.) - Arithmetic - 1851 - 104 pages
...books, sections, &c. Seven letters are used, viz., I, V, X, L, C, D, and M. The letter I expresses one ; V, five ; X, ten ; L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred; and M, one thousand. All numbers can be expressed by these ten figures, or seven letters, by combining... | |
 | David Henry Cruttenden - Arithmetic - 1853 - 330 pages
...called the ROMAN and the ARABIC characters. 5. The ROMAN characters, or figures are the seven letters, I one • V five ; X ten ; L fifty ; C one hundred; D five hundred ; M one thousand. 6. When one of these characters is repeated, its value is repnated. Thus. I is a single thing; II two... | |
 | James Gray - Arithmetic - 1854 - 120 pages
...three; 4, four; 5, five; six, 6 ; 7, seven ; 8, eight ; 9, nine ; 0, cipher. ROMAN NUMERAL LETTERS. I, one ; V, five ; X, ten ; L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand. To read any number expressed iu figures. 1. Read 83068. 2. Read 976705. 3. Read 8067900. EXAMPLES.... | |
 | James Robinson (of Boston.) - Arithmetic - 1857 - 104 pages
...books, sections, &c. Seven letters are used, viz., I, V, X, L, C, D, and M. The letter I expresses one ; V, five ; X, ten ; L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred; and M, one thousand. All numbers can be expressed by these ten figures, or seven letters, \>j combining... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1859 - 144 pages
...capital letters, viz : I, V, X, L, C, D, M. When standing alone, the letter I, denotes one ; V, fit-e ; X, ten ; L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand. QUiST.— 1. What Is Arithmetic? What is a single thing called? If another Is put wltb it, what is... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Arithmetic - 1863 - 350 pages
...NOTATION. 28. The Roman Method of Notation employs seven letters of the Eoman alphabet. Thus, I represents one ; V, five ; X. ten ; L, fifty; C, one hundred; D, five hundred; M, one thouscrid. To express other numbers these characters are combined according to the following principles... | |
 | George Augustus Walton - Arithmetic - 1864 - 364 pages
...Numeration is the. art of reading numbers. 9. Besides being expressed in words, numbers are repre-. (9) sented by letters and figures. The method of representing...C, one hundred ; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand. 13. By combining these letters in various ways, all numbers may be expressed, the following principles... | |
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L, fifty ; C, one hundred ; D, five hundred ; M, one thousand. 
