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Ah, let's take a moment to appreciate the beauty in both Hindu-Arabic and ancient Egyptian numerals. While Hindu-Arabic numerals use a place-value system with symbols like 1, 2, 3, etc., ancient Egyptian numerals relied on hieroglyphs and a base 10 system. Despite their differences, both systems share the common goal of helping us understand and communicate numbers, showing the wonderful diversity of human creativity and ingenuity.
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BeauThe Hindu- Arabic number system has different symbols for number form one to nine though The Egyptian number system repeatedly uses the strokes, which is used twice for 2, used thrice for three and so on.......
Disadvantages in Egyptian number systems are though number are long they are not necessarily the largest and though symbols are short they are not necessarily the shortest answer.
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Where did people use Egyptian numerals?
Egyptian numerals were primarily used in ancient Egypt for various purposes such as counting, record-keeping, and astronomical calculations. They were also used in trade and commerce. However, with the rise of the Arabic numeral system, Egyptian numerals eventually fell out of common use and were replaced by the more widely adopted Arabic numerals.
How do you say zero in Aramaic?
Aramaic has no word for zero, since that value does not occur in the Aramaic numeral system, nor in Roman numerals or in ancient Hebrew or in ancient Egyptian.
How did the Egyptians write whole numbers?
It's hard to describe, as our keyboards don't have keys for those symbols. But google ' ancient egyptian numerals' and you get to see them all.
What where roman numerals used for?
Roman numerals were used for writing numbers in ancient rome.
What were the ancient Greek numerals used for?
I believe that the ancient Greeks used them for mathematics!
