Hieroglyphic Numerals. Egyptian numerals Additive System.

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1 Hieroglyphic Numerals

2 Egyptian numerals Additive System

3 The eye of Horus

4 The Battle of Seth and Horus  Seth murders his brother Osiris  Horus goes to revenge his father  Big    Seth mutilates Horus’ eye  Horus castrates Seth  Thote collects pieces of eye and heals it  Eye is now symbol of wholeness

5 Earliest engraving King Narmer’s club handle 3000-2900 BC

6 Egyptian hieratic numerals

7 Greek Acrophonic Numerals

8 Greek acrophonic numerals Multiplicative System

9 Roman Numerals

10 Roman Numerals

11 Roman numerals

12 Development of Roman Numerals for Large Numbers

13 Archaic Chinese numerals 14 th – 11 th centuries BC

14 Archaic Chinese Numerals

15 Those Magnificent Mayans

16 Ordinary Mayan numerals

17 Zero Ground zero Japanese zero

18 Zero Origin- Arabic al-sifer = zero Hundi- sunya = void, empty - shunya = zero English- cipher = meaning empty space old names- aught, naught, and cipher

19 The History of Zero

20 The Abacus Latin = abacus/abaci Greek = abax or abakon = table or tray From Semitic word abq= dust, sand

21 The Table of Salamis 4 th or 5 th century BC Found on the island of Salamis in 1846

22 Ancient Counting Devices

23 Ancient Chinese counting grid

24 Counting devices of the Middle Ages

25 Modern Abaci