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Number Systems

Published on Nov 30, 2015

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NUMBER SYSTEMS

LIZZIE ROWAN

NUMBER SYSTEMS

  • Egyptian
  • Chinese
  • Hindu-Arabic
  • Babylonian
  • Roman numerals

EGYPTIAN
It was a system of numeration based on the scale of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs.

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CHINESE
There are characters representing the numbers zero through nine, and other characters representing larger numbers such as tens, hundreds, thousands and so on.

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HINDU-ARABIC
The Hindu–Arabic numeral system[1] or Hindu numeral system[2] is a positional decimal numeral system, nowadays the most common symbolic representation of numbers in the world.

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BABYLONIAN
Only two symbols were used to notate the 59 non-zero digits.

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ROMAN NUMERALS
Roman numerals, the numeric system used in ancient Rome, employs combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet to signify values.

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