These days I am fascinated with numbers. They are so forgiving and peculiar. Where did they come from? Where are they going? Can I be a number? Can you pull me like a ticket? 117 in the produce line. 23 at the bank. 814.78 without a verb. 3.1415179 in my hair. Dare to eat a six. Becareful not to say Stevie Nicks. Beware the octagon. Turn lightly on a Palestinian doctor. Give screws toes to root the outer vector space vehicle. Collapse ghosts in a fuzzbuster. Then count to ten again. The Brahmi way: _ = _+ = ...
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I like the ? of the first cen. what comes next?
The number 'ten'. I am not sure how they wrote it in the first century though. I don't think 'zero' was invented yet.
I was thinking about the shapes and how that one (that holds the nine space) looks like a ?. wondering if there is a spill from letters and punctuation and numbers. Anyway, it is fun to look at.
What about the Korean groupings? There is still some stuff in there that I don't get. I ran across it all the time in my class. Students with great English still had trouble counting high numbers.
Here is something about it:
"The grouping of large numbers in Korean follow the Chinese tradition of myriads (10000) rather than thousands (1000)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_numerals
and here are some pretty cool shapes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu-Arabic_numeral_system
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