in an base ten positional system, similar to the Arabic numbers. It is unknown if this use existed before the 19th century.

The oldest authenticated use is in the notes of an 18-year-old journeyman tailor, Edward Larsson, the contain the date 1885 in runes. A copy of the note was published by the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå in 2004.

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