Hieroglyphic Numerals

1
Hieroglyphic Numerals
2
Egyptian numerals
Additive System
3
The eye of Horus
4
The Battle of Seth and Horus

• Seth murders his brother Osiris
• Horus goes to revenge his father
• Big ??????
• Seth mutilates Horus eye
• Horus castrates Seth
• Thote collects pieces of eye and heals it
• Eye is now symbol of wholeness

5
Earliest engraving
King Narmers club handle3000-2900 BC
6
Egyptian hieratic numerals
7
Greek Acrophonic Numerals
8
Greek acrophonic numerals
Multiplicative System
9
Roman Numerals
10
Roman Numerals
11
Roman numerals
12
Development of Roman Numerals for Large Numbers
13
Archaic Chinese numerals
14th 11th centuries BC
14
Archaic Chinese Numerals
15
Those Magnificent Mayans
16
Ordinary Mayan numerals
17
Zero
Ground zero
Japanese zero
18
Zero

• Origin- Arabic al-sifer zero
• Hundi- sunya void, empty - shunya zero
• English- cipher meaning empty space old
  names- aught, naught, and cipher

19
The History of Zero
20
The Abacus

• Latin abacus/abaci
• Greek abax or abakon table or tray
• From Semitic word abq dust, sand

21
The Table of Salamis 4th or 5th century BC Found
on the island of Salamis in 1846
22
Ancient Counting Devices
23
Ancient Chinese counting grid
24
Counting devices of the Middle Ages
25
Modern Abaci