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The main difference between the Egyptian numerical system and the Hindu-Arabic system is the characters. While in Hindu-Arabic the symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and, 9 are used the Egyptians used a character for each 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10,000, 100,000, and 1,000,000. (the numerals are visible here https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Egyptian_numerals)

With Hindu-Arabic each place is populated by only one character and that represents that places value but in Egyptian each character is repeated for the desired value of each place.

234 is 234 in Hindu-Arabic

but in Egyptian it is 2 100 characters, 3 10 characters, then 4 1 characters.

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