 | Charles Hutton - Arithmetic - 1818 - 646 pages
...the alphabet. The Roman* used only seven numeral letters, being the seven following capitals : viz. I for one ; V for five ; X. for ten ; L for fifty ; C for an hundred ; D for five hundred ; M for a thousand. The other numbers they expressed by various... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...the alphabet. The Romans used only seven numeral letters, being the seven following capitals : vix. I for one; V for five ; X for ten ; L for fifty ; C for an hundred ; D for five hundred : M for a thousand. The other numbers they expressed by various... | |
 | Ira Wanzer - Arithmetic - 1831 - 408 pages
...express numbers. The Romans used only seven numeral letters, being the seven following capitals, viz. I for one, V for five, X for ten, L for fifty, C for an hundred, D i'ovfive hundred, and M for a thousand. The other numbers they expressed by various... | |
 | Richard Frederick Clarke (the elder.) - 1833 - 158 pages
...of Notation was unknown, made use of seven capital letters to express any number required ; namely, I for one ; V for five ; X for ten ; L for fifty ; C for one hundred ; D for five hundred ; M for one thousand. XXV expressed Twenty-five ;— CVIII... | |
 | Alfred Crowquill - Arithmetic - 1843 - 156 pages
...the alphabet. The Romans used only seven numeral letters, being the seven following capitals ; viz. I for one ; V for five ; X for ten ; L for fifty ; С for a hundred ; D for five hundred ; M for a thousand. The other numbers they expressed by various... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1850 - 346 pages
...Roman, and the Arabic or Indian.* ART. 3. The Roman notation employs seven capital letters, viz. : I, for one ; V, for five ; X, for ten ; L, for fifty ; C, for one hundred ; D, for five hundred ; M, for one thousand. The intermediate numbers and the... | |
 | Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1851 - 310 pages
...the alphabet. The Romans only used seven numeral letters, being the seven following capitals : viz. I for one ; V for five ; X for ten ; L for fifty ; C for a hundred ; D for five hundred ; M for a thousand. The other numbers they expressed by various... | |
 | John Fair Stoddard - Arithmetic - 1852 - 320 pages
...seven following letters to express numbers, which we now use to number Lessons, Chapters, &c. :— I, for one ; V, for five ; X, for ten ; L, for fifty ; C, for one hundred ; D, for five hundred ; M, for one thousand. The intermediate numbers and numbers... | |
 | C W. Thornhill - 1854 - 228 pages
...expressed their numbers by certain letters of the alphabet. The Romans used seven numeral letters, namely, I. for one, V. for five, X. for ten, L. for fifty, C. for one hundred, D. for five hundred, and M. for a thousand. A less numerical letter standing before... | |
 | Charles D. Lawrence - Arithmetic - 1854 - 336 pages
...system of notation, employed letters to express numbers. They used the following letters ; namely, I. for one ; V. for five ; X. for ten ; L. for fifty ; C. for a hundred ; D. for five hundred.; M. for a thousand. The other numbers they expressed by various... | |
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Romans only used seven numeral letters, being the seven following capitals : viz. I for one ; V for five ; X for ten ; L for fifty ; C for a hundred ; D for five hundred ; M for a thousand. 
