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  2. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Number systems have progressed from the use of fingers and tally marks, perhaps more than 40,000 years ago, to the use of sets of glyphs able to represent any conceivable number efficiently. The earliest known unambiguous notations for numbers emerged in Mesopotamia about 5000 or 6000 years ago.

  3. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Roman numerals, in particular, are directly derived from the Etruscan number symbols: ๐Œ  , ๐Œก , ๐Œข , ๐Œฃ , and ๐ŒŸ for 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100 (they had more symbols for larger numbers, but it is unknown which symbol represents which number). As in the basic Roman system, the Etruscans wrote the symbols that added to the desired ...

  4. Alphabetic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Gothic alphabet adopted their own alphabetic numerals along with the Greek-influenced script. [3] In North Africa, the Coptic system was developed in the 4th century AD, [4] and the Ge'ez system in Ethiopia was developed around 350 AD. [5] Both were developed from the Greek model.

  5. Gothic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Gothic alphabet is an alphabet for writing the Gothic language. It was developed in the 4th century AD by Ulfilas (or Wulfila), a Gothic preacher of Cappadocian Greek descent, for the purpose of translating the Bible .

  6. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Such method is 6.7% more efficient than MIME-64 which encodes a 24 bit number into 4 printable characters. 89: Largest base for which all left-truncatable primes are known. 90: Nonagesimal: Related to Goormaghtigh conjecture for the generalized repunit numbers (111 in base 90 = 1111111111111 in base 2). 95: Number of printable ASCII characters ...

  7. Blackletter - Wikipedia

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    Various German language blackletter typefaces English blackletter typefaces highlighting differences between select characters Modern interpretation of blackletter script in the form of the font "Old English" which includes several anachronistic glyphs, such as Arabic numerals, ampersand (instead of Tironian et) and several punctuation marks ...

  8. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    In "old style" text figures, numerals 0, 1 and 2 are x-height; numerals 6 and 8 have bowls within x-height, plus ascenders; numerals 3, 5, 7 and 9 have descenders from x-height, with 3 resembling ส’; and the numeral 4 extends a short distance both up and down from x-height. Old-style numerals are often used by British presses.

  9. Scribal abbreviation - Wikipedia

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    A mark, resembling the Arabic numeral two (2) and placed on the median line after the letter (e.g. eแทฃ), indicates tur or ur, which occurs generally at the end of the word. Alternatively it could stand for ter or er but not at the end of the word. (Nordic languages, such as Old English, have a lightning-bolt-like mark for words ending in er.)