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    Numbers have been used for centuries by ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Mayans, and Babylonians, each developing their own number systems based on counting body parts. The earliest numerals were developed independently in Egypt and Mesopotamia as early as 3000 BCE to assist with trade and money exchanges. Key developments include the Egyptians creating a base-10 system from counting on fingers, the Mayans using base-20 likely from fingers and toes, and the Babylonians employing a complex base-60 system. The modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system originated from Indian, Persian, and Arabic mathematicians and is the decimal system still used today.

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    Numbers have been used for centuries by ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Mayans, and Babylonians, each developing their own number systems based on counting body parts. The earliest numerals were developed independently in Egypt and Mesopotamia as early as 3000 BCE to assist with trade and money exchanges. Key developments include the Egyptians creating a base-10 system from counting on fingers, the Mayans using base-20 likely from fingers and toes, and the Babylonians employing a complex base-60 system. The modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system originated from Indian, Persian, and Arabic mathematicians and is the decimal system still used today.

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    Numbers have been used for centuries by ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Mayans, and Babylonians, each developing their own number systems based on counting body parts. The earliest numerals were developed independently in Egypt and Mesopotamia as early as 3000 BCE to assist with trade and money exchanges. Key developments include the Egyptians creating a base-10 system from counting on fingers, the Mayans using base-20 likely from fingers and toes, and the Babylonians employing a complex base-60 system. The modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system originated from Indian, Persian, and Arabic mathematicians and is the decimal system still used today.

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    HISTORY OF

    Numbers
    Numbers are the building blocks of
    Our Number System is Base-10,
    mathematics, which made way to
    meaning we count from 0, 1, 2, ... , 9,
    the expansion of algebra and
    before the pattern repeats again and
    calculus. Children count numbers
    again, as with the Ancient Egyptians
    using their fingers and maybe even
    from counting fingers. The Mayans
    toes, which reflects on the
    used Base-20, and the Babylonians
    development of base-10, 20, or
    used Base-60! Computers use Base-
    more number system.
    2 as it is binary.

    Egyptian numerals were scribed in hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt. It used base-10


    number system, most likely from counting fingers.
    Mayan numerals were used to represent numbers and calendar dates. It used
    base-20 number system, most likely from counting fingers and toes.
    Babylonian numerals were incredibly difficult to decipher as they used base-60
    number system.

    FORMS
    EARLIEST

    R
    OF NUMBE
    INVENTION

    Numbers have existed for


    centuries. The earliest form of OF ZERO

    numerals were scribed as early as Zero was nonexistent until


    3000 BCE, in Egypt and an
    Indian mathematician nam
    Mesopotamia. Numbers are ed
    Brahmagupta started pla
    important especially in trades and cing a dot
    underneath the numbers.
    money exchanges. Numbers are When a
    number is taken away, the
    the building blocks of modern dot
    remains. This analogy can
    mathematics. be seen
    as leaving footprints on sa
    nd.
    Nowadays, zero is a symbo
    l for the
    concept of nothing or havin
    g
    nothing.

    HINDU-

    ARABIC N
    UMERAL S

    The Hindu-Arabic numerals


    were invented by both Indian,
    EGYPTIAN
    Persian, and Arabic
    mathematicians. These FRACTION
    S

    numerals are a set of 10


    symbols that represent numbers Modern fractions are written where
    in our current decimal system. numerators and denominators can
    be any integer. Egyptian fractions
    however are written as finite sum
    of distinct unit fractions, which
    means the numerator is always "1"
    and denominator is a positive
    integer.

    INFORMATION SOURCES
    A brief history of numerical systems - Alessandra King - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZH0YnFpjwU White, Claire. “Brief History of Calligraphy.” The Serif,
    11 Oct. 2020, theserif.net/calligraphy/history-calligraphy/.
    BBC. The Story of Maths. The Language of the Universe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb0MSMGSIeY
    The History of Zero - Discovery of the Number 0 by Ancient India - BBC's Story of Maths - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQEuywkWa2U

    CREATED By MS. LU

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