 | Edmund Burke - 1759 - 516 pages
...not ori• write M for 1 ,000, and C fame means; the fing-Je refliangk which denoted 50, was, withoot alteration, a capital L ; the double acute angle was an X ; the finjj5t acute angle a V confonant, and » plain fingle flroke, the letter L And thus thefe feven letters,... | |
 | Philip Luckombe - 1771 - 534 pages
...the fingle acute angle a V confonant, and a plain fingle ftroke, the letter I. And thus thefe feven letters, M, D, C, L, X, V, I, became numerals. As a further proof of this afiertion, let it be confidered, that CIO is flill ufed for one thoufand, and 10 for five hundred,... | |
 | 1795 - 532 pages
...D. E also became a plain С by the same means ; the single reelangle which denoted 50, was, without alteration, a capital L ; the double acute angle was...thus, these seven letters, M, D, C, L, X, V, I, became nu, nierais. And as a further proof of this hypothesis, let it be considered, that CID and 13 are still... | |
 | 1816 - 778 pages
...D. E alfo became a plain C by the fame means ; the fingle reflangle which denoted 50, was, without alteration, a capital L ; the double acute angle was an X ; the fingle acute angle a V confonant ; and a plain fingle droke, the letter I ; and thus thefe fevtn letters,... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pages
...D. L also became a plain С by the same means ; the single rectangle which denoted 50, was without alteration, a capital L ; the double acute angle was...stroke, the letter I; and thus these seven letters, M, D,C, L,X¿ V, I, became numerals. NUMERAL Characters of the Arabs, are those figures which are now... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 pages
...D. E also became a plain С by the same means; the single rectangle which denoted fifty was, without alteration, a capital L the double acute angle was...seven letters, M, D, C, L, X, V, I, became numerals. — See ARITHMETIC. NUMIDA, in ornithology, a genus belonging to the older gallina}. On each side of... | |
 | Thomas F. Adams - 1857 - 300 pages
...that it soon deviated into that character : so that | 3 having the corners made round, stood thus IO, and then easily deviated into D. C also became a plain...considered, that CIO is still used for one thousand, and IO for five hundred, instead of M and D ; and this mark, n, is sometimes used to denote one thousand,... | |
 | Thomas MacKellar - 1866 - 354 pages
...that it soon deviated into that character ; so that 1 3 having the corners made round, stood thus, IO, and then easily deviated into D. C also became a plain...considered that CIO is still used for one thousand, and IO for five hundred, instead of M and D ; and this mark, C), is sometimes used to denote one thousand,... | |
 | Thomas MacKellar - 1870 - 356 pages
...that it soon deviated into that character ; so that 1 3 having the corners made round, stood thus, IO, and then easily deviated into D. C also became a plain...considered that CIO is still used for one thousand, and IO for five hundred, instead of M and D ; and this mark, (9, is sometimes used to denote one thousand,... | |
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C also became a plain C by the same means ; the single rectangle which denoted fifty, was, without any alteration, a capital L; the double acute angle was an X; the single acute angle a V consonant; and a plain single stroke, the letter I. And thus these... 