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The Origin of Numbers
Read below first, then click on the attachment!
How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape - Interesting!
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Do you know why numbers look like they do? Someone, at some point in time, had to create their shape and meaning. Watch this short presentation and then you will know how our Arabic numbers were originally created a very long time ago and what logic was used to determine their shapes. It is really very simple and quite creative?
You have to admire the intelligence of the people that created something so simple and perfect that it has lasted for thousands and thousands of years and will probably never change?
When the presentation gets to the number "seven" you will notice that the 7 has a line through the middle of it. That was the way the Arabic 7 was originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they still write the 7 that way. The "nine" has a kind of curly tail on it that has been reduced, for the most part nowadays, to a simple curve, but the logic involved still applies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuEpRHtsgSY
Read below first, then click on the attachment!
How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape - Interesting!
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Do you know why numbers look like they do? Someone, at some point in time, had to create their shape and meaning. Watch this short presentation and then you will know how our Arabic numbers were originally created a very long time ago and what logic was used to determine their shapes. It is really very simple and quite creative?
You have to admire the intelligence of the people that created something so simple and perfect that it has lasted for thousands and thousands of years and will probably never change?
When the presentation gets to the number "seven" you will notice that the 7 has a line through the middle of it. That was the way the Arabic 7 was originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they still write the 7 that way. The "nine" has a kind of curly tail on it that has been reduced, for the most part nowadays, to a simple curve, but the logic involved still applies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuEpRHtsgSY
