Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Logic behind Numerals

"Reason/Logic for everything." is one of the resons behind the progress of human being. Number systems have played very important role in the evolution of human kind. Now-a-days human life is totally controlled by the numbers. Do you know the logic behind these numerals? Have you ever thought why ONE is written as 1, TWO as 2 and so on?? While thinking of such reasons, ROMAN numerals are very easy to understand( ONE - I, TWO - II). But what is the logic behind PHOENICIAN numerals? Well, here is the answer. PHOENICIAN numerals were all about angles. See the below picture.  



By seeing above picture one can easily conclude that its number of angles. 1 has one angle, 2 has two and so on...

Interesting!! 
Isn't it?

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