[BITList] Fwd: How numerals 0 to 9 got their shape

[Michael Feltham]

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From: B Howden <
Date: 24 February 2010 14:34:55 GMT

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Read this first, then click the attachment!

The presentation is not automatic, you will need to move the slides by pressing the page down or the spacebar.

How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape - Interesting 
 
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. You will  then 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 that created something so simple and perfect that it has lasted for thousands and thousands of years and will probably never change?
 
When the presentation 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.
 
 






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