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Armenian Numbers :The Armenian number system is a historic numerals using the capital letters of the ancient
armenians.
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There is no special notation for zero. It is based on additive number system.
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Example:1998 = 1000 + 900 + 90 + 8 is represented as below:
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Indian Numbers :The Hindu-Arabic numeral system is a positional decimal numeral system. Many of the
countries adopted the Indian numerals.
Values 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
bengali
devanagari
gujarati
gurmukhi
kannada
malayalam
oriya
telugu
tamil
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Babylonian Numbers :Babylonians were the first people to develop the written number system. Their number
system is based on Sexagesimal System. It appeared around 1900 BC to 1800 BC.The Babylonian number system had only two basic elements; l and < .
59 numbers are built from these two symbols.
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Example:For example, 1,45,29,36 represents the sexagesimal number
1 x 60 + 45 x 60 + 29 x 60 + 36
= 1 x 216000 + 45 x 3600 + 29 x 60 + 36= 216000 + 162000 + 1740 + 36
The decimal notation is 379776
1,45,29,36 in Babylonian Numerals
Babylonians did not have a digit for zero, instead they used a space to mark the nonexistence
of a digit in a certain place value.
Example:4,0,8 in Babylonian Numerals
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Khmer Numbers :The Khmer number system was used in Cambodia. It is similar to Thai numerals.
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Chinese Numbers :The Chinese character numeral system is not a positional system. The Chinese system is
also a base-10 system.It contains two types of numerals, Simple and Complex.
Numbers Simple Complex
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Chinese Chinese
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Example:For example, 123 is represented as
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Counting Rods Numbers :Counting Rods were used by the mathematicians in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. It
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was used by ancient chinese for more than 2000 years.
It represent digits by the number of rods.
Positive Numbers:
Value Vertical Horizontal
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Negative Numbers:
Value Vertical Horizontal
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It represent digits by the number of rods. Red rods represent positive numbers and black rods
represent negative numbers.
Examples:
123
1234
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-5678
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Mayan Numbers :Mayan numerals were used in Central America, before 876 AD. The numerals consists of
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only three symbols, zero is represented as a shell shape, one as a dot and five as a bar.
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After the numbers 19, numerals were written in the vertical format in powers of twenty.
Example:433 is (1 x 400) + (1 x 20) + 13 = 433. It is represented as below:
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Cyrillic Numbers :The Cyrillic number system was used in Russia, on 1700s. Their system was based on
Quasi-decimal. It is based on Ionic Number System.
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Example:1999 is represented as below:
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Egyptian Numbers :
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The Egyptians had a writing system based on hieroglyphs from around 3000 BC.
Hieroglyphs are represented in pictures. The Egyptians had a bases 10 system of hieroglyphs
for numerals.
They have separate symbols for one unit, one ten, one hundred, one thousand, one ten
thousand, one hundred thousand, and one million.
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Numeric Description:
Symbols Descripton
Symbol from 1 - 9 Single Strokes
Symbol for 10 Cattle Hobble or Yoke
Symbol for 100 Coil of Rope
Symbol for 1000Water Lily(also called Lotus
Flower)
Symbol for 10000 Finger
Symbol for 100000 Tadpole or Frog
Symbol for 1000000Egyptian Man with both hands
raised
Symbol for indicatingFraction
Mouth(Part)
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Symbol for Plus and Minus Feet pointed into the direction
Example:4568 is represented as the below one:
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Greek Numbers :The Greeks had two number systems. First is the Acrophonic or Herodian or Attic
numerals. This numerals were used by the ancient Greeks. Second is the Milesian,Alexandrian, Ionic, or Alphabetic numerals.
Numbers Acrophonic Greek Alphabetic Greek
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The Greek numeric system operates on the additive principle in which the numeric values of
the letters are added together to form the total.
Example:
4567 corresponds to 4000 + 500 + 60 + 7 = 4567. It is represented as below:
Acrophonic Greek
Alphabetic Greek
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Sumerian Numbers :As the history told, the sumerians might have been invented their writing during 4th to 2nd
millennia BC. Their number systems was a base 60 or sexagesimal system.
The sumerian number system consists only two numerals, the one and ten. Their place valuesystem is read from the right, increased by a factor of 60.
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Example:The below example will help you to know the Arabic(base ten) number represented in
sumerian:
The above example is represented as:
10 + 1 + 1 1 + 1 + 1 10
12 x 602
3 x 601
10 x 600
12 x 3600 + 3 x 60 + 1043200 + 180 + 10 = 43390
The main drawback of the sumerian number system is the way to represent zero is not
mentioned.
Example:The below example cannot be identified what kind of representation it makes, whether 342,
3420, 3402, or any other number variation, somehow it will intend to have some meaning
from the context.
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Hebrew Numbers :Hebrew numerals is a quasi-decimal alphabetic numeral system. The numeric values for
individual letters are added together.Each units, tens, hundreds are assigned in a separate letter.
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The Hebrew numeric system operates on the additive principle in which the numeric values ofthe letters are added together to form the total.
Example:
249 corresponds to 200 + 40 + 9 = 249. It is represented as below:
Urnfield Numbers :Urnfield culture was around 1200 BC. They followed quinary number system, that is base
five.
The numbers form 1 to 29 were found.1 /
2 //
3 ///
4 ////
16 /\\\
17 //\\\
18 ///\\\
19 ////\\\
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5 \
6 /\
7 //\
8 ///\
9 ////\
10 \\
11 /\\
12 //\\
13 ///\\
14 ////\\
15 \\\
20 \\\\
21 /\\\\
22 //\\\\
23 ///\\\\
24 ////\\\\
25 \\\\\
26 /\\\\\
27 //\\\\\
28 ///\\\\\
29 ////\\\\\
The units digit are represented with a stroke from the top-right to the bottom-left '/' and the
fifths place with a stroke from the top-left to the bottom-right '\'. Only till numeral 29 were tobe found.
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