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How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape
This is really interesting....
How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape - Interesting.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Do you know why numbers look like they do? Someone, at some point in time, =ad to create their shapes and meaning.
Watch this short presentation and then you will know how our Arabic numbers=were originally created a very long time ago and what logic the people tha= created them used to determine their shapes. It is really very simple and=quite creative?
You have to admire the intelligence of a person or people that created some=hing so simple and perfect that it has lasted for thousands and thousands =f years and will probably never change?
When the presentation gets to the number "seven" you will notice that the 7=has a line through the middle of it. That was the way the Arabic 7 w=s originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they still wri=e the 7 that way. Also, in the military, they commonly write it that=way.
The nine has a kind of curly tail on it that has been reduced, for the most=part nowadays, to a simple curve, but the logic involved still applies.
This is really interesting....
How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape - Interesting.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Do you know why numbers look like they do? Someone, at some point in time, =ad to create their shapes and meaning.
Watch this short presentation and then you will know how our Arabic numbers=were originally created a very long time ago and what logic the people tha= created them used to determine their shapes. It is really very simple and=quite creative?
You have to admire the intelligence of a person or people that created some=hing so simple and perfect that it has lasted for thousands and thousands =f years and will probably never change?
When the presentation gets to the number "seven" you will notice that the 7=has a line through the middle of it. That was the way the Arabic 7 w=s originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they still wri=e the 7 that way. Also, in the military, they commonly write it that=way.
The nine has a kind of curly tail on it that has been reduced, for the most=part nowadays, to a simple curve, but the logic involved still applies.
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