Do you know why numbers look like they do? Someone, at some point in time, had to create their shapes and meaning.
Read this post and then you will know how our Arabic numbers were originally created a very long time ago and what logic the people that 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 something so simple and perfect that it has lasted for thousands and thousands of years and will probably never change?
When the article 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 was originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they still write 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… Enjoy!
The Numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…
The numbers we write are made up of algorithms, (1, 2, 3, 4, etc) called Arabic algorithms, to distinguish them from the Roman algorithms (I; II; III; IV; etc.).
The Arabs popularize these algorithms, but their origin goes back to the Phoenician Merchants that used them to count and do their commercial contability.
Have you ever asked the question, why 1 is “one”, 2 is “two”, 3 is “three”…?
What is the logic that exists in the Arabic algorithms?
Easy, very easy…!
There are ANGLES!
Look at these algorithms written in their primitive form and check it up…!
And the most interesting and intelligent of all…
Moral of the story: It is never too late to learn!
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