What is consisting of, or expressed by, letters. The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. Johnson called?
literal — Consisting of, or expressed by, letters. The literal notation of numbers was known to Europeans before the ciphers. Johnson. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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