Date: 2017-06-09 12:05 pm (UTC)
momentsmusicaux: (Default)
From: [personal profile] momentsmusicaux
How do you have a decimal number system before you have number symbols?

Date: 2017-06-09 01:10 pm (UTC)
jack: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jack
I'm really not sure, but I guess, they had words for numbers, and had words for ten, twenty etc, but not separate words for all the numbers between, or they draw tally-like marks in groups of 10?

The words seem most likely, I never really thought about it, but I assume words for numbers may have come before symbols; but I'm not sure how we'd *know* that.

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