Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Egyptian number system is a number system.What does it look like?It looks like this
1 =
staff
10 =
heel bone
100 =
coil of rope
1000 =
lotus flower
10,000 =
pointing finger
100,000 =
tadpole
1,000,000 =
astonished man
It is very easy to use the Egyptian number system . For number 2 , just draw 2 staffs,just like this:
1 =
10 =
100 =
1000 =
2 =
20 =
200 =
2000 =
3 =
30 =
300 =
3000 =
4 =
40 =
400 =
4000 =
5 =
50 =
500 =
5000 =
But in writing the numbers,the largest decimal order would be written first. The numbers were written from right to left.To write 2010 in Egyptian, is egypt10.gif(i think)
http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/topics/num-sys.html#qui

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