Author: leonid
Date: 06:41:24 12/17/99
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On December 17, 1999 at 01:58:00, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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. >> >>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 ! > >Okay, so Thorsten sent me this .bmp file which I am taking a look at right now. >It's pretty cool. I must admit that I'm not completely convinced that the >Arabian numbers were originally written as they are drawn in the .bmp file :), >but then again, I have no reason to think they weren't, either. Here's a rough >ascii-ization of it. The asterisks denote the angles. > > >The zero is easy O > Three \ > /| *\ >One /*| / > | /* (the lines could be all be > | \ more horizontal) > *\ >Two --- / > */ / > / > /* > --- > ----- ----- >Four Five |* |* > /| |* Six |* > /*| ----- |----- > /**| *| |* *| > ---| |* *| |* *| > *| ---- ----- > >Seven ---------- Eight ---- Nine ---- > */ |* *| |* *| > / |* *| |* *|* > |* */* ---- ------ > +----+-- |* *| *|* > |* */* |* *| |* *| > / ---- ---- > / > >Cool, wot? > >Dave Arabic numbers originally signify just what was said: Number represent the number of angles that it contain. Only one precision for curious. Each Arabic number is in reality Indian number. Arabs took them from India. Numbers in Arabic script are almost identical to the numbers in Hindi. If we name our numbers Arabic it is only because we took them from Arabs. Leonid.
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