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What is the difference between Mayan number system and Hindu Arabic number system?
The Mayan system is more like Roman numerals than our Hindu-Arabic numbers. It has no sign for 6, for example, but must combine the sign for 5 and the sign for 1. Normal addition and subtraction and especially multiplication and division, as we understand these operations, were difficult if not impossible.
How do you write Arabic value of CDLXVII in English numbers?
First off, CDLXVII is not Arabic. It is Roman Numerals. Secondly, the so called "English numbers" are actually the Arabic ones. They are known as Hindu-Arabic Numerals. And finally, to answer your question, it would be 467. Source: Took college level Algebra where we learned the different counting methods (such as Egyptian, Mayan, Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Hindu-Arabic (English), and Chinese (which is similar to Japanese). Passed with a 94.
What Single factor made the Hindu Arabic number system superior?
It is superior from other systems because it has separate symbols for all numbers to 10 unlike Mayan or roman numerals who for 6 have to use 2 symbols (a line under a dot for Mayan and a V then an I for roman)
How was Mayan mathematics different from math today?
the Mayans used dots and bars instead of numerals
What are similarities between Mayan number system and Hindu Arabic number system?
There are many reasons why the Mayan and the Hindu Arabic number systems are different some of these are why.The Mayan number System has a place value and a non place value system and the Hindu Arabic number system has a place value system.Their based numbers are different, the Mayans is 20 and the Hindu Arabic is 10.The Mayan number system only has three symbols, and the Hindu Arabic number system has up to ten symbols including the zero.Hindu Arabic number system reads or makes it from left to right on the Mayan number system you make or read it from top to bottom.The Mayans also didn't have the concept of fractionThe similarities are that both number systems have a symbol for zero and that both number systems could do addition and subtraction even if it was difficult in the Mayan system
