Arabic numbers!

[g]

here are the arabic numbers
۰ 0
۱ 1
٢ 2
٣ 3
٤ 4
٥ 5
٦ 6
٧ 7
٨ 8
٩ 9

the same order like english just put the arabic one instead of english ...if you want to make 2006 it will be ٢۰۰٦

you can find some nice numbers and pick few ones

also here is a list of numbers 1-10 in letters

one واحد
TWO اثنين اتنين إثنين إتنين
three ثلاثة ثلاثه
four اربعة أربعة اربع
five خمسة
six ستة
seven سبعة
eight ثمانية
nine تسعة
ten عشرة

hundred مائة
thousand الف ألف
million مليون
billion مليار

I hope if you don't like any..it will inspire you with many ideas to search and find some nice ones.

regards

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by g

here are the arabic numbers
۰ 0
۱ 1
٢ 2
٣ 3
٤ 4
٥ 5
٦ 6
٧ 7
٨ 8
٩ 9

the same order like english just put the arabic one instead of english ...if you want to make 2006 it will be ٢۰۰٦

you can find some nice numbers and pick few ones

also here is a list of numbers 1-10 in letters

one واحد
TWO اثنين اتنين إثنين إتنين
three ثلاثة ثلاثه
four اربعة أربعة اربع
five خمسة
six ستة
seven سبعة
eight ثمانية
nine تسعة
ten عشرة

hundred مائة
thousand الف ألف
million مليون
billion مليار

I hope if you don't like any..it will inspire you with many ideas to search and find some nice ones.

regards

Is that correct that Number go the opposite way to text in Arabic?

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by g

here are the arabic numbers
۰ 0
۱ 1
٢ 2
٣ 3
٤ 4
٥ 5
٦ 6
٧ 7
٨ 8
٩ 9

the same order like english just put the arabic one instead of english ...if you want to make 2006 it will be ٢۰۰٦

you can find some nice numbers and pick few ones

also here is a list of numbers 1-10 in letters

one واحد
TWO اثنين اتنين إثنين إتنين
three ثلاثة ثلاثه
four اربعة أربعة اربع
five خمسة
six ستة
seven سبعة
eight ثمانية
nine تسعة
ten عشرة

hundred مائة
thousand الف ألف
million مليون
billion مليار

I hope if you don't like any..it will inspire you with many ideas to search and find some nice ones.

regards

Thanks I am big numbers fan. We regged some of those.

Dave

[g]

Originally Posted by Dwrixon

Is that correct that Number go the opposite way to text in Arabic?

english numbers are ordered right to left exactly like arabic ones

for example 1995

5 is the smallest written to the right

and 1 which is the largest ,referring to one thousand, is written to the left

for that reason ( order from right to left ) arab claims that they had invented numbers and west followed them !!...

good luck with the numbers you registered

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by g

english numbers are ordered right to left exactly like arabic ones

for example 1995

5 is the smallest written to the right

and 1 which is the largest ,referring to one thousand, is written to the left

for that reason ( order from right to left ) arab claims that they had invented numbers and west followed them !!...

good luck with the numbers you registered

The west undoubtedly adopted the system used by the Arabs, however, claims to have invented the system are groundless as the Arabs actually imported the Indian System. I believe that they are often called Indian numerals in Arabic just as we refer to them as Indian numerals. The zero was also invented in India.

Dave

[kenne]

My pet half baked theory is that the Indians adapted greek alphabet. notice: 2 is similar to greek alpha, 3 similar to beta, other similarities. Whereas Hindi looks quite different.


They did invent 0 though. Looking back, it's amazing how many languages managed to do decimal arithmetic all without the use of "0"... I mean, imagine little Archimedes sitting there with a wax tablet, doing "3 - 3 = " boom! no zero!

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Dwrixon

The west undoubtedly adopted the system used by the Arabs, however, claims to have invented the system are groundless as the Arabs actually imported the Indian System. I believe that they are often called Indian numerals in Arabic just as we refer to them as Indian numerals. The zero was also invented in India.

Dave

I read about this a year ago while surfing for inventions, the decimal system 0-9 was used in china since 1400BC.

http://www.askasia.org/teachers/lessons/plan.php?no=64/

I believe people have been using this system much earlier than that (even people elsewhere like in ancient Egypt), since we all got 10 fingers and it is easier to use ten as a factor.

More information: http://www.gewis.nl/gewis/commissies.../wiskunde.html

[kenne]

Chinese (and I imagine most other people) got around the lack of "0" by using "十" postfix. meaning multiply by 10.

That's different than "0", which paves the way towards easy manipulation of negative numbers, algebra and host of other things.

I think "零" (real Chinese equivalent of "0") was invented later. but not sure.

http://www.gewis.nl/gewis/commissies.../wiskunde.html
This link is pretty cool. Though "nothing" on an abacus or counting board is not a bona fide "zero". The concept of nothing is probably universal. but to invent a symbol to stand for that "nothing" number (equal with other numbers) is quite a breakthrough.

[touchring]

http://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/math...ph/biozero.htm

Earliest use of zero is by the Iraqis.


The Original Use of Zero

The original use of the zero was formed by the babylonians. They used the sunya(zero) in the medial position to represent a blank spot for that individual set. The Zero in betweeen nagative and positive numbers wasn't invented until later when the chinese invented negative numbers.

The traditional Chinese numeration system is a base-ten system employing nine numerals and additional symbols for the place-value components of powers of ten. Before the eighth century A.D. the place where a zero would be required was always left absent. A circular symbol for zero is first found in a document dating from 1247, but it may have been in use a hundred years earlier.

The name for zero is not settled even yet. Older names and variations include naught, tziphra, sipos, tsiphron, rota, circulus, galgal, theca, null, and figura nihili.

[kenne]

"According to a Babylonian legend the original shape of the zero was said to be derived from buddha. When he was meditating he formed a circular shape with his index fingers and thumbs meaning void. By doing this he was saying that in prayer you should make your mind blank. This void was the same idea as the blank space between numbers. So in order to be able to define the number of blanks they used the symbol in the shape of a 0. Thus the mythological or spiritual invention of zero. "

Babylonian scientists were thousands of years before Indian buddha. Maybe the author was a little high?

Cool, so Babylonians get the top honors. even as placeholders, 0 is very nice thing to have.

btw, the arabic "0" looks like a "." ! They really should consider start using the REAL "arabic" numbers...

[touchring]

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/math/math.htm. More info, not sure how much of it is true as there are no reliable written records so early.

[kenne]

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/math/math.htm

You are right. The Chinese probably independently developed a lot of zero, algebra, trigonometry etc.

It's sad how isolated the country was for 2000 years, through a fluke of geography and Mongolian hordes in between... But for these, world history would have been entirely different.

Back to topic. I tried to pick up some of the numbers, no luck