LOGISTIC

We, therefore, here according to nature, and as this Logistic requires, say ten and one, ten and two, ten and three, ten and four, ten and five, ten and six, ten and seven, ten and eight, ten and nine, rather than Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and—which I do not find in Priscian, and therefore I strongly doubt whether we can use them anywhere—seventeen, eighteen, nineteen. The ancients indeed said seventeen, but Charisius writes that this has gone out of use; he does not mention the other two. Thus, ten and eight, ten and nine, twenty one, twenty two, twenty three are more convenient than eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, and other things of this kind; although both are Latin. Therefore, our number