The Arabic numerals from 1 to 10 are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten respectively. In order to express extremely large or extremely small numbers, people have created scientific notation on the basis of Arabic numerals.

The use of capitalized figures began in the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang issued a decree because of a major corruption case "Guo Huan case" at that time, explicitly requiring that the figures in accounting books should be changed to capitalized figures, so as to increase the difficulty of tampering with accounting books.

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The correct writing of RMB capitalization should also pay attention to the following matters:

First, if the amount of Chinese money expressed in words reaches yuan, the word "whole" (or "positive") should be written after yuan; After "corner", the word "full" (or "positive") may not be written; There are "points" in the number of words, and the word "all" (or "positive") is not written after "points".

Two, the Chinese amount in words number should be marked with the word "RMB", and the amount in words number should be followed by the word "RMB", and no spaces should be left. If the word "RMB" is not printed before the number of amount in words, the word "RMB" should be added, and the fixed words "thousand, hundred, ten thousand, ten thousand, yuan, jiao and fen" shall not be pre-printed in the amount in words column of bills and settlement vouchers.

3. When there is "0" in Arabic numerals, Chinese capitalization shall conform to the Chinese language rules, the composition of the amount figures and the requirements for preventing alteration.