two,
three. Each of these lines represents a unit. Ebers calls the unit a drachm and supposes it to be equivalent to the Arabic dirhem, about forty-eight English grains. The Egyptian system of numeration was decimal. Up to nine lines were used;
was ten, and two, three or more of these figures followed each other up to ninety. Then came
a hundred,
a thousand, and so on. Fractions were shown by the figure
