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In the use of the duplicate forms for one and two, some care is required, for while we can say eh4 seh8, or ne7 seh8, for ten and twenty, we cannot say süò8 seh8, lang7 seh8, neither is it admissible to say sü`o͘8 pa4 eh4, süò8 pa4 ne7, for one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty.

The system of abbreviated numerals used in business transactions is easily made to represent concrete numbers, as inches, feet, and poles; or ounces, pounds &c., with their decimals, by placing the character denoting some weight, or measure, under the proper figure, in the same manner that the character for tens, hundreds, &c. is used under ordinary abbreviated characters; thus,

two hundred and twenty-one feet, four inches, six tenths;

twenty-two poles, one foot, four inches, six tenths; or,

two thousand two hundred and fourteen inches, six tenths.

The same system serves for writing decimals, as the character placed below the line determines the place of units.