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2 wers this quetion, how many? (unles it be anwered by nothing.) So if it be asked how many dayes are in a week, the anwer is even, which is called Number.

III. The Notes or Characters, by which Number is ordinarily expreed, are thee; 1 one, 2 two, 3 three, 4 four, 5 five, 6 ix, 7 even, 8 eight, 9 nine, 0 nothing.

IV. Thee Notes or Characters are either ignificant figures, or a Cypher.

V. The ignificant figures are the firt nine; viz. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The firt whereof is more particularly called an Unit, or Unity, and the ret are aid to be compoed or Unities: o 2 is compoe of two unities, 3 of three Unities, &c.

VI. The Cypher is the lat, which though of it elf it ignifies nothing, yet being annexed after any of the ret, it increaeth their value: As will appear in the following Rules.

VII. Arithmetick hath two parts, Notation and Numeration.

VIII. Notation teacheth how to expres, read, or declare, the ignification or value of any number written, and alo to write down any number propounded, with proper Characters in their due places.

IX. A Number is aid to have o many places or degrees, as there are Characters in the number; viz. when divers figures, whether they be intermixt with a Cypher of Cyphers or not, are placed together like letters in a word, without any point, comma, line, or other not of ditinction inter- poed,