Why are there no complex numeric forms in the Book of Mormon, like biblical Hebrew?

It would have been easy for Joseph Smith to mistakenly use complex numeric forms which were common in his day but out of place in the Book of Mormon. 

FAIR Latter-day Saints notes that:

Biblical Hebrew uses cardinals (one, two, three), ordinals (first, second, third), multiplicatives (double, sevenfold), and fractions (half, third, tenth) but avoids complex numeric forms using prefixes such as mono-, bi-, di-, uni-, tri-, multi-, and poly-.

– FAIR Latter-day Saints – Use of numbers in the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon is consistent with Biblical Hebrew in this regard, how did Joseph manage to avoid making a fairly easy mistake during dictation?

See:

• FAIR Latter-day Saints – Use of numbers in the Book of Mormon

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