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.

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 bengali devanagari gujarati gurmukhi kannada malayalam oriya telugu tamil This is a funny interesting part of maths. Enjoy it with Fun! 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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.

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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Example: For example, 123 is represented as Simple Complex This is a funny interesting part of maths. Enjoy it with Fun!

Counting Rods Numbers : Counting Rods were used by the mathematicians in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. It

was used by ancient chinese for more than 2000 years. It represent digits by the number of rods. Positive Numbers: Value Vertical Horizontal Value Negative Numbers: 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 -567 -5678 This is a funny interesting part of maths. Enjoy it with Fun!

Mayan Numbers : Mayan numerals were used in Central America, before 876 AD. The numerals consists of

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 :

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 Symbol from 1 - 9 Symbol for 10 Symbol for 100 Symbol for 1000 Symbol for 10000 Symbol for 100000 Symbol for 1000000 Symbol for indicating Fraction Descripton Single Strokes Cattle Hobble or Yoke Coil of Rope Water Lily(also called Lotus Flower) Finger Tadpole or Frog Egyptian Man with both hands raised Mouth(Part)

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

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 value system 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 + 10 43200 + 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 of the 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 ////\\\

5 \ 6 /\ 7 //\ 8 ///\ 9 ////\ 10 \\ 11 /\\ 12 //\\ 13 ///\\ 15 \\\

20 \\\\ 21 /\\\\ 22 //\\\\ 23 ///\\\\ 24 ////\\\\ 25 \\\\\ 26 /\\\\\ 27 //\\\\\ 28 ///\\\\\

14 ////\\ 29 ////\\\\\

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