The Roman numerals are easy to understand but what was the logic behind the Phonecian numbers ?
The numbers we all use (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.) are known as "Arabic " numbers to distinguish them from the " Roman Numerals " ( I, II, III, IV, V, VI, etc ).
Actually the Arabs popularized these numbers but they were originally used by the early Phonecian Traders to count and keep track of their trading accounts.
It’s all about angles !
It’s the number of angles. If one writes the numbers down (see below) on a piece of paper in their older forms, one quickly sees why. I have marked the angles with "o"s.
No 1 has one angle.
No 2 has two angles.
No 3 has three angles.
etc.
and “O” has no angles
i rite numbers making no angle, instead they represent some x degree graph. (b/t my seven 7 is similar to one of dat image, n two is more or less like a duck :D)
you know you’re the first person to call her a cat and her a her. yaay
and oh it is meant to be weird
i think if you go around a circle once, like pick a starting point and come back to it once, it has 360 degrees. if you keep going around it then you will be adding 360 more degrees to it. =/
Waiting for an Indian to show up and claim that Mathematics was a Hindu invention and it's because they invented 'zero', we are where we are because of them...
weird
