We don't who who the first person was but it was around 30,000 BC when tally marks were made on bones and things to represent numbers.
It is not true to say that people don't use tally marks often - they do!
In Ancient Rome, tally marks were used one at a time to represent numbers. It wasn't until later that numbers were instituted to represent numbers to make large numbers shorter.
Ways to write one billion is: one billion,1 billion,1,000,000,000,you can write it in roman numeral several different ways,with tally marks, etc.
The word 'number' comes from Latin word ' numerus' meaning a quatityt. Various marks on bones/wood etc., are thought to be 'tally marks' from 40,000 years ago. Our modern number symbols of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, are Arabic in origin.
The tally marks I'm familiar with cannot have negative numbers because they are used to count real things and there cannot be a negative apple
Marks cut into a tally stick
The only way I found to make tally marks in Excel is to llll would be to us the lower case l and use strike-through for the five
We don't who who the first person was but it was around 30,000 BC when tally marks were made on bones and things to represent numbers.
It is not true to say that people don't use tally marks often - they do!
In Ancient Rome, tally marks were used one at a time to represent numbers. It wasn't until later that numbers were instituted to represent numbers to make large numbers shorter.
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They created numeral numbers & the 365 calender ( Started by using tally marks) =]
Ways to write one billion is: one billion,1 billion,1,000,000,000,you can write it in roman numeral several different ways,with tally marks, etc.
5
The word 'number' comes from Latin word ' numerus' meaning a quatityt. Various marks on bones/wood etc., are thought to be 'tally marks' from 40,000 years ago. Our modern number symbols of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, are Arabic in origin.
It does not matter. The main thing is that it clearly marks a block of 5.