Numerals

Examples

• The drill of the student involved chiefly the acquisition of the special signals employed in railway work, including the numerals and abbreviations applied to save time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Our modern numerals are Arabic; our arithmetic and algebra are essentially Semitic sciences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The indicator was composed of several wheels; on the circumference of each wheel were the numerals; and one wheel had fractions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A third made use of the so-called Arabic (really Hindu) system of numerals, and wrote the first work on Algebra under that name. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Their method of field measurement was far less developed than the ancient Egyptian geometry, and even for it (as well as for their system of numerals) they were indebted to the Etruscans. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Moreover, it is scarcely in the category of invention that the acquisition of alphabetic writing or the use of Arabic numerals properly belongs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The origin of the so-called Arabic numerals is obscure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Many pr imitive languages have no words for numerals higher than five. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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