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  2. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Alphabetic numeral system – Type of numeral system; Counting rods – Small bars used for calculating in ancient East Asia; Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation – Unicode block (U+12400-1247F) containing numbers and punctuation signs for the ancient Cuneiform script

  3. Timeline of numerals and arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Alphabetic numeral system – Type of numeral system; Attic numerals – Symbolic number notation used by the ancient Greeks; Australian Aboriginal enumeration – Counting system used by Australian Aboriginals; Counting rods – Small bars used for calculating in ancient East Asia; History of ancient numeral systems – Symbols representing ...

  4. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system; List of numeral system topics; Numeral prefix – Prefix derived from numerals or other numbers; Radix – Number of digits of a numeral system; Radix economy – Number of digits needed to express a number in a particular base; Timeline of numerals and arithmetic

  5. Babylonian cuneiform numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian system is credited as being the first known positional numeral system, in which the value of a particular digit depends both on the digit itself and its position within the number. This was an extremely important development because non-place-value systems require unique symbols to represent each power of a base (ten, one hundred ...

  6. Egyptian numerals - Wikipedia

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    The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt from around 3000 BC [1] until the early first millennium AD. It was a system of numeration based on multiples of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs. The Egyptians had no concept of a positional notation such as the decimal system. [2]

  7. History of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    The Ancient Greeks used a system based on the myriad, that is, ten thousand, and their largest named number was a myriad myriad, or one hundred million. In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC) devised a system of naming large numbers reaching up to ,

  8. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    The number shown is 82. Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system. They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded. However, because of the length of ...

  9. Indian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The decimal number system in use today [3] was first recorded in Indian mathematics. [4] Indian mathematicians made early contributions to the study of the concept of zero as a number, [5] negative numbers, [6] arithmetic, and algebra. [7]