The first Part. Of the Definitions of the Dismes. The first Definition. Disme is a kind of Arithmeticke, invented by the tenth progression, consisting in Characters of Cyphers; whereby a certain number is described, and by which also all accounts which happen in humane affairs, are dispatched by whole numbers, without fractions or broken numbers.

Disme: the Art of Tenths, Or, Decimall Arithmetike (1608)