47/48 It would be awkward to use, from the paucity in the number of signs, which could scarcely fail to give rise to confusion,--more especially as it does not appear that there was any way of expressing a cipher. It is not probable that at any time it was the notation in ordinary use. Numbers were commonly expressed in a manner not unlike the Roman, as will be seen by the subjoined table. 3.] One, ten, a hundred, and a thousand, had distinct signs. |