Posted : January 2010
Author : zen
Pictures below should explain clearly the origin of numbers.
I got this email from my friend. Now I am sharing it with you guys. Enjoy :)
Quoted from the email:
The numbers we write are made up of algorithms, (1, 2, 3, 4,
etc) called arabic algorithms, to distinguish them from roman algorithms (I,
II, III, IV, etc). The Arabs popularise these algorithms, but their origin goes
back to the phenecian merchant that used them to count and do their commercial
contability. Have you ever asked why 1 is “one” and 2 is “two”? What is
the logic that exist in the arabic algorithms?
The answer is "Angles".
Look at these algorithms written in their primitive form:
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