10. By whom used?
The ancient Greeks.
11. What is the Numerical value of
F?
40 in some of the Ancient notations; 80
in the Arabian; and 10,000
in
the Armenian.
12. What is the Numerical value of
G?
400.
13. By whom used?
The Latins.
14. What is the Numerical value of
H?
100 in the Greek notation; and 200 in
the Latin.
15. What is the Numerical value of
I?
1 in the Roman notation; and 100 in some
of the Ancient notations.
16. What is the Numerical value of
K?
20 in the Greek notation; and 60 in the
Semitic.
17. Give the Numerical values of L.
50 in Roman, and 30 in Semitic notation.
18. What are the Numerical values of
M?
As a Roman numeral, 1,000; Greek and Hebrew,
40.
19. What is the value of N as a Numeral?
In the Greek notation, 50; Roman, 90;
and by some other, 900.
20. What is the Numerical value of
O?
70 in the Greek; and 11 in the Ancient
Latins.
21. What is the Numerical value of
P?
In the Greek notation, 5; in the Latin,
80; and in the Roman, by
some
authors, 7, by one, 100, and by still another, 400.
22. As a Numeral, what is the value
of Q?
500.
23. By whom used?
Several of the Ancient Nations of Europe.
24. What is the Numerical value of
R?
80
25. By whom used?
The ancient Romans.
26. What is the Numerical value of
S?
7
27. By whom used?
The Ancients.
28. Give the values of T as a Numeral.
300 in the Greek notation; in the Latin,
160.
29. What is the Numerical value of
V?
5 in the Roman notation.
30. What are the values of X as a Numeral?
In the Roman, 10; in the Greek, 60.
31. What are the Numerical values of
Z?
7 in the Greek notation; and 2,000 in
the Roman.
32. Why have J, U, W, and Y no Numerical
values?
Because they have been introduced into
the Alphabet since the
Science
of Arithmetical Notation was invented.
33. What effect does it have on the
value of a letter to draw a
line
above it?
In most cases it increases its value a
thousand times.
34. Is a line ever drawn beneath a
letter for the same purpose?
In some instances it is.
35. What effect does it have on a letter
as a numeral to repeat
it?
Repeats its value as often as it is repeated.
1. What is a Capital letter?
A large letter.
