Numbers

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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 and then you will 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.
Click on the right arrow each time you want to advance the amazing
slide show.