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XI. The Chinese Numerals and their Notational Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

L. C. Hopkins
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The Chinese people have two systems in current and concurrent use for writing their Numerals.

Of these, one is the ordinary notation with characters of pictographic origin, except the first three cyphers.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 48 , Issue 2 , April 1916 , pp. 315 - 333
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1916

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References

page 317 note 1 “The Old Numerals, etc., in China,” p. 29.Google Scholar

page 317 note 2 Loc. cit., p. 131.

page 318 note 1 See the Ku Ch'üan Hui , Section Hêng , p. 2.

page 319 note 1 It is a list of the different documents recovered by Sir Aurel Stein, numbered in ma tzŭ by his Chinese secretary.