Interesting fact about numberssss.....
Have you ever thought why........ 1 means "one", and 2 means "two"?
The roman numerals are easy to understand but what was the logic behind the phonecian numbers?
It's all about angles !
It's the number of angles.
If one writes the numbers down (see below) on a piece of paper in their older forms, one quickly sees why.
I have marked the angles with "o"s.
No 1 has one angle.
No 2 has two angles.
No 3 has three angles.
etc.
and "O" has no angles
Interesting, isn't it?
An ancient phonecian manuscript explains this and I thought it to be fascinating.
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Interesting theory, but not one that I particularly agree with. If 0 was written in the same form as the rest of the numbers in that diagram then it would look like a rectangle, since the rest of the numbers are usually curved just as is a 0. Plus, looking at the 2 angles that are marked on the 8 that are more than 90 degrees, if they are going to be marked, then why not mark the opposite angles on other numbers to the ones that are already marked?
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