Sunday, March 2, 2008

Why Numbers like : 1 is One & 2 is two.... interesting

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.



Angles are marked with "o"s.

No 1 has one angle.No 2 has two angles. No 3 has three angles. etc. and "O" has no angles
Interesting, isn't it?

An ancient phonecian manuscript explains this and I thought it to be fascinating.

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