Hindu Arabic Number System
The Hindu-Arabic Number system originated in India, during the Gupta Period. (Once again my friends.) Zero is merely a dot, whereas 3 is a collection of complicated scribbles that is quite enjoyable to look at. Of course, it is a line upwards and 2 little scallopy things, but it takes up much more space than the zero. Yet, zero is a most interesting dot/small diamond, it was used more as a place holder than as a number.
The Hindu Arabic Numeral System’s symbols are referred to as “glyphs”. Below are the glyphs for the different numbers and languages. The glyph list to look at is the Arabic-Indic. It is a positional decimal numeral system which was evolved By Indian Mathematicians.Originally there were only nine glyphs, until zero was added.
January 19th, 2011 at 9:43 am
Wow! It would be fun to use one of the calligraphy pens and try to write these. They really ARE pretty to look at.
January 19th, 2011 at 9:46 am
Did you put a hyper-link in?
January 19th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Whoa! The Tamil symbols are so pretty and elegant-looking. I bet they were hard to write, though.
January 19th, 2011 at 9:53 am
“A collection of complicated scribbles.”