 | Education - 1926 - 556 pages
...systems, including the Roman, is that there are special symbols for all the higher units. There is X for ten, L for fifty, C for one hundred, D for five hundred, and M for one thousand. The use of special symbols for the higher numbers corresponds in part to the fact that in the case... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1876 - 240 pages
...Roman Notation, numbers are expressed by means of seven capital letters, viz. : I, V, X, L, C, D, M. I stands for one ; V for five ; X for ten ; L for fifty ; C for one hundred; I) for five hundred; M for one thousand. Art. 24. All other numbers are expressed by repeating or combining... | |
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I, stands for one ; V, for five ; X, for ten; L, for fifty ; C, for one hundred ; D, for five hundred ; and M, for one thousand. 
