Do you know why numbers look like they do? Someone, at some point in time, had to create their shapes and meaning. Watch this short presentation 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 thousands and thousands of years and will probably never change. When the presentation gets to the number "seven" you will notice that the7 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.

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2. 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.).
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The arabs popularized these
algorithms, but their origin goes
back to the Phoenecian merchants
who used them to count and do
their commercial accounting.

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Have you ever asked the
question why “one” is 1, “two”
is 2, “three” is 3...?

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What is the logic that
existed in the arabic
algorithms?

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Easy, very easy…!
There are angles!

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Look at these algorithms written
in their primitive form and
check it out! …

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1 angle 2 angles
3 angles 4 angles

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5 angles 6 angles
7 angles
8 angles

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9 angles

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And the most interesting and
intelligent of all…..

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Zero angle !

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It is never too late to learn!

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