Advertisement
Published in:
1989 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Written Numbers
Author : Graham Flegg
Published in: Numbers Through the Ages
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Included in: Professional Book Archive
Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.
Select sections of text to find matching patents with Artificial Intelligence. powered by
Select sections of text to find additional relevant content using AI-assisted search. powered by
The discussion so far has been concerned almost entirely with the history of spoken numbers. This chapter is concerned solely with the history of numerals, i.e. written numbers. It describes numeral systems which have been used in different parts of the world and traces the familiar decimal numbers back to their origin in the Indian subcontinent.