Numerals

Before the introduction into Europe of these Arabic numerals, they used alphabetical characters, or _Roman numerals_. ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)

Is it possible that ole Virg doesn't like the result simply because it was written in Arabic numerals? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was delighted when the answer turned out the same in contrived hieroglyphs as it did in Arabic numerals and lettering. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

As to whether the chapter number should be written out, in Roman numerals, or in Arabic numerals…I have heard many things over the years. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The adjacent screen showed its computer's quick interpretations, equations rendered in Arabic numerals, Greek and Roman letters, international signs for mathematical operations. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)

It is a great pleasure to a city woman when she is able to discern the survey lines, and to tell by the Roman numerals from the iron post in the surveyor's mound what township, section, and range she is in. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

High up are two dates cut in the chalk, in Arabic numerals, that have been erroneously read 1347 and "Martin 1350 February 18," but these should be respectively 1547 and 1550, as Arabic numerals were not in use in ❋ Unknown (1879)

Starting with a Congressional investigation into its despicable use in Arabic numerals. ❋ Joshua Stanton (2011)

At last he was able to understand that the numerals were the wrong way round, mirror-reversed; 2 was where 10 should be, 8 where four should be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every date expressed in long count terms contained five numerals, that is, the number of baktuns, katuns, tuns, uinals and kins elapsed from the "beginning of time", according to the Maya system. ❋ Unknown (2006)

This means not only that numbers are there in the use, it means that the numerals are the numbers, for “[a] rithmetic doesn't talk about numbers, it works with numbers” (PR §109). ❋ Rodych, Victor (2007)

As Tritton put it in the 1943 Teach Yourself Arabic: "The numerals are the nightmare of a bankrupt financier." ❋ Unknown (2004)

There were Egyptian pounds in it, numbered in Arabic numerals. ❋ Whitley Strieber (2002)

The numerals were the true Arabic, which don't have the same shape as ours. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

He wrote a neat, sloping, rather flowing and somewhat old-fashioned hand, which greatly resembled the writing of Beau Brummell, and, like the illustrious Beau's, his numerals, which is rare nowadays, were very clearly and very beautifully formed. ❋ Tatlow, Joseph (1920)

The oldest definitely dated European document known {138} to contain the numerals is a Latin manuscript, [556] the Codex Vigilanus, written in the Albelda Cloister not far from Logroño in Spain, in 976 A.D. ❋ David Eugene Smith (1902)

There are no head-lines, the pages being numbered centrally in Arabic numerals. ❋ Thomas James Wise (1898)