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Post by Tamrin on Oct 1, 2009 18:54:25 GMT 10
How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape
from Carole Venecourt
[PowerPoint Presentation - Attached Below] Attachments:
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Post by huw on Sept 17, 2011 12:38:32 GMT 10
Amusing.
However, I remain to be convinced that those were actually the "primitive shapes" of arabic (or indeed phoenician) numerals. Certainly even less like modern numerals in arabic than they're like modern numerals in Latin alphabets, which seems philologically implausible if these were meant to be the basis of the arabic form then we took our form from the arabic.
H. G. W.,
Huw
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 17, 2011 14:55:44 GMT 10
Seemingly the Arabs got these from India and they became known in Europe as Arabic (or Phoenician) numbers because they they were obtained from Arabs. They ought not be confused with the Eastern Arabic numerals and are more properly called Hindu-Arabic numerals. |
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Post by huw on Sept 17, 2011 15:23:31 GMT 10
That rings a bell, I've think I've heard before that it started in India. But they still didn't look like the alleged primitive forms in the video link, nor do any of those in your wiki link. I reckon Venecourt just made it up to fit a pretty theory.
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Post by Smithee on Sept 18, 2011 11:41:16 GMT 10
It was the curly tail on the nine which made me suspicious.
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