Author: allan johnson
Date: 16:48:46 12/16/99
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On December 16, 1999 at 08:14:38, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On December 16, 1999 at 05:19:55, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On December 15, 1999 at 20:33:13, Thorsten Czub wrote: >> >>>the arabien number have the angles. they count the angles in each number. >>>1 has one angle. 2 has 2 angles. 3 has 3 angles... 8 has eight angles >>>and 9 has nine angles. sero has sero angles since it is a round number. >>>so you see, hip people produce much better ideas... >> >>Can you go through this again, a bit more slowly? For each digit, what are the >>angles? > >:-)) it was to slow for you ?? > >many people have forgotten that arabien numbers are icons too. >most people do only remind that roman-numbers are little-icons consisting >out of I and X that means: more or less straight lines. > >arabien number have the same history, straight lines, that have been >ordered arround angles. >this is one reason why the american way of writing the 1 makes >no sense, since a number ONE without 1 angle is sero !! >here in europe we write the 1 as you can even see in the computer >letter, with an angle in the top. >thats the ONE angle the 1 should have. >all other number were build by straight lines to and have been >made round in the history, so people forgot about the meaning of the lines. >but it is - as you can imagine, easy (i cannot paint it here >due to the pc is a weak media for painting): think of a 2 made out >of straight lines, than you see the angle in the top and the angle at the >bottom. >see the 3 with straight lines, you have top, bottom and middle. gives >3 angles. >8 is very easy ! with some numbers it is more difficult. the 4 e.g. >has changed over the cneturies and the way my computer shows it, >is wrong. in the triangle of the 4 we have 3 angles. than the line >beneath the triangle there is the 4th angle. the line on the back >of the 4 is not right. it is a wrong change of the icon of the four and >makes it senseless, in fact makes a 6 out of the 4. >the same problem is the 7. the way my computer writes it, it shows >more a 2 than a seven. >but when i was a young children at school i had to learn how to write >a seven, and this really had 7 angles. > > >>Dave > >ok. i think you forgot some :-))) , but when you are really interested >into this topic , i can sent you an image made with MS-paint and >show you the real outfit of the number as they once have been designed >millenniums ago ! Hey guys I wasn't expecting this barrage of detailed info about the period.It's proved very enlightening and I appreciate the feedback. Just one more reason why I like this site so much. Regards Al
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