WHY WE HAVE NUMBERS
G'day folks,
We use numbers
all day, every day. We write them, we click them, we calculate with them
and we use them to think and count. But how much do you know about the
actual numbers you use? Most of us know that they were invented way
back, by the Arab empire, adapted by the whole world. Before that, the
popular numbers were the Roman numbers (I for 1, X for 10 and so forth).
But do you know WHY the numbers look the way they do? If not, then
here's why:
Clancy's comment: Mm ... I never knew that. Did you?
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