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Why is three written as 3 numerically?

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ShebanKhan

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12y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

To make it shorter for computational purposes. One sympol (i.e. 3) is much quicker to write and it takes up less space than spelling it out 5 characters. Fyi.. decimal numbers are based on arabic symbols. People used Roman numerals for a while (and some still do), but the Arabic system was much more efficient.

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