In many parts of India, among the common people of Japan and China, in Siam and generally about the Malay Peninsula, in Tibet, and among the East India islands, the natives still adhere to their own numeral forms.
And if these Kufic characters reached there, then why not the numeral forms as well?
Writers fail, however, to recognize that a commercial numeral system would have been more likely to be made known by merchants than by scholars.
The numeral forms given are those which have usually been called Indian,[266] in opposition to [.
Conjectures, {36} however, without any historical evidence for support, have no place in a serious discussion of the gradual evolution of the present numeral forms.
Numeral adjectives belong to nouns, which nouns must agree in number with their adjectives.
The words many, few, and several, as they always refer to an indefinite number, may be properly called numeral adjectives of the indefinite kind.
This cartouche is clasped by the left arm of another anthropomorphic figure, the day coefficient, the head of which is the skull, denoting the numeral 10.
There are a few cases in which the "backward sign" includes also the numeral in the second position.
Mention should be made here of a numerical form which can not be classified either as a bar and dot numeral or a head variant.
Note the ornamental dotted ovals on each side of the dot in the numeral 6.
In using Table XIV, however, it should be remembered that the position of a numeral multiplier determines at the same time that multiplier's multiplicand.
The significance of the element standing between the numeral and the day sign is unknown.
Examples of bar and dot numeral 5, showing the ornamentation which the bar underwent without affecting its numerical value.
The fleshless lower jaw and other skull-like characteristics indicate that the numeral 10 is here recorded.
No head forms for the numeral 20 have yet been discovered.
In this particular case there is no room for doubt, since the numeral in G2 is a day coefficient, and day coefficients as stated in Chapter III, can never rise above 13.
Second, or other, is a comparative, not as compared with its cardinal, two, but as compared with the numeral one.
Now, just as an and a have arisen out of the numeral one, so has the arisen out of the demonstrative pronoun thaet, or at least from some common root.
Oriental historians have noticed that the numeral eight affected this caliph in a singular manner.
On these larger coins the numeral letters are [A r] for 33.
Numeral adjectives are those which limit nouns as to number or order.
In these sentences the adjectives three, forty, two, first and eighteenth are all numeral adjectives.
Adjectives that limit nouns as to number or order are called numeral adjectives.
Numeral adjectives answer the question how many or in what order.
It will be impossible, however, to develop this doctrine, in its entire extent, on the present occasion, for the numeral symbolism of Masonry would itself constitute materials for an ample essay.
IV, corresponding with column 4 of the above table (V), where the days are the same and the numeral prefixed to each day is 4.
As it may be supposed that using the same numeral to any five days of the twenty in this way will produce a similar result, let us test it by an example.
To illustrate, let us take the next to the right-hand column of the table where the numeral is 1, and let us assume the month to be Pop, or the 1st.
On these two plates (embracing all of 61, and the lower left-hand square of 62) we find five squares, each one bordered on two sides with the symbol of a single day repeated thirteen times and accompanied by numeral signs.
What effect does it have on a letter as a numeral to repeat it?
Its value as a numeral used in the notation of different languages.
The numeral or word preceding the command Halt should always be given with a rising inflection in order to prepare the men for the command Halt.
If any movement of any exercise is to be performed with more energy than the others, the word or numeral corresponding to that movement should be emphasized.
Above or below hoist--the numeral flags are to be taken as numbers simply.
There are ten numeral flags--1 to 9, and one for 0.
The complete number opposite each letter or numeral stands for that letter or numeral.
Every bifurcation, and beginning or ending of a ridge, common to the two impressions, is marked with a numeral in blue ink.
The numeral 54 was used to express nondescript patterns.
The numeral before the first form may possibly be explained by the fact that this symbol is used once (Manuscript Troano, Plate XII) to indicate the day Ix.
It follows, therefore, that so far as this rule holds good the last red numeral of the series must be the same as that over the day column.
Numeral character from the lower division of Plate XV, Manuscript Troano.
The sum of the black numbers is 65, the interval between the days 65, and the last red numeral the same as that over the day column, thus agreeing in plan with those in the other codices.
The first red numeral of the series is given thus: [Illustration: FIG.
Adding the I over the column to the 11, the first black numeral; gives XII, the red numeral following the 11.
In this case the red numeral over the day column is I.
The red numeral at this point in some of the colored copies of Kingsborough's work is III, but a close inspection shows the missing dot which has not been colored.
Idem, partly surrounded by a serpent in motion and accompanied by the numeral 1.
The upper half of the face exhibits a numeralon either cheek under the eyes, seeming to convey the idea of dualities.
By the latter accompanied by the image of a seated god and the numeral 1.
As another Maya name for the capital was Ho and this means five it seems possible that this numeral and sound were actually expressed by an open hand and that the Nahuatl name thus arose.
As already stated, the word can means serpent and the numeral 4 and is almost homonymous with the word for sky or heaven=caan.
Idem, accompanied by the numeral one and the sign for heaven, to which a cross-shaped star is hanging.
These were called the Metóswa rapids, from the Indian numeralfor ten.
The Scriptures everywhere associate a sense of completeness and perfection with the numeral 7, also with the numeral 10.
This frequent recurrence of 70-year periods shows that as a numeral 70 may justly be regarded as one of the units of TIME in the dispensation of God's providence, and therefore to be reckoned with in the study of prophecy.
The numeral 7 expressed the utmost intensity known to the king.
Numeral Systems of Mexico and Central America, by Cyrus Thomas.
When a numeral adjective and a qualifying epithet both refer to the same noun, the general rule of the English language is to place the numeral first, then the qualifying epithet, and afterwards the noun.
But the numeral signature is rapidly superseding this, as showing the exact value of a measure, and being in accordance with the signatures of all other kinds of time.
In common time there is a choice between the numeral signature "4/4" and the letter signature "C.
A note here, a numeral there, a word of explanation to the secretary; at length he had completed his task.
Korean Cards showing numeral and suit marks with feather design on reversed card.
