@The Megaton Bomb, our numbers are actually Hindu. Their number system spread to North Africa, and from North Africa to Europe. Europeans call them Arabic numbers, because they were unaware that the Arabs didn't invent them.
@talmet, my point more involved how everyone in the Mediterranean area used practically the same number and alphabet system (until the Romans came along and got all high and mighty with their number system), but yeah.
@The Megaton Bomb, The Arabs didn't rise to power until way after the Romans were gone. So it's safe to assume the Roman system came way before the Arabic system.
@CriTiKa1, or it's safe to assume the now called Arabic system based of the Sanskrit symbols used in Mesopotamia (modern day Iran/Iraq) were spread to roman areas during commerce as it was the system we see used in trade records from long before the Romans.
@Broly the SS Legend, i counted five on number seven there. I think that would be a fail my friend. Perhaps posted to the wrong app? Maybe not. It is mildly funny
This is old but dumb... every one of those numbers have more than on angle... the number one for example had the small angle on the inside but it had a much larger angle on the outside
@Oh No Its Dan, yeah, they could. It's not like the system is engineered to be the best most efficient system, it was just one of the earliest ones, so it stuck.
Wow that's mildly interesting