Thread: Relation between numbers and symbols :)

Have you ever thought why ........ 1 means "one", and 2 means "two"?

The roman numerals are easy to understand but what was the logic behind the phonecian numbers?

It's all about angles !

It's the number of angles.

If one writes the numbers down (see below) on a piece of paper in their older forms, one quickly sees why.

I have marked the angles with "o"s.

No 1 has one angle.
No 2 has two angles.
No 3 has three angles.
etc.

and "O" has no angles

ohhhhhh wowww... got something new in knowledgebase
thanks for sharing this mate

hhmm..... interesting , thanks for sharing pal

Thanks for sharing....

hey thats really cool.

So what about '6', '7', '8' and '9'? The theory fails there somehow.

this one is really cool

Liked that...

My personal opinion is that this is not true and someone
just made it up.

-F

Even then its nice creativity...

WOW superb

but i suppose this is wrong for 8 & 9 :O

Originally Posted by kailash

WOW superb

but i suppose this is wrong for 8 & 9 :O

Coz 8 and 9 are forced to make 8 and 9 angles respectively
LOL

Hi, Thanks for sharing....that is very creativity....

Shareefa

Actually some smart alec just brought this analogy - it is not true at all.

See the rule fails for all numbers from 5 to 9.

are you real man or computer generated prog :confused1:
great observation

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Originally Posted by smoothvibes

are you real man or computer generated prog :confused1:
great observation

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I observed the same thing 3 days ago ;-)