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In which ancient civilization were numbers represented in words for the first time

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Answered by MacintoshTavish
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Hebrew Numeral System

The Hebrew numbering system is an alphabetic quasi-decimal system in which the letters of the Hebrew alphabet are used. It as a non-positional system which relies on 22 symbols, but none of them is used to represent zero.

Babylonian Numeral System

This system appeared for the first time around 1900-1800 B.C. in Babylon, which was a city of lower Mesopotamia and was located in what is today Iraq. It is the first numbering system which is positional, which has 60 as its base, and they had a separate sign for zero.

Answered by gratefuljarette
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In Babylonian ancient civilization were numbers represented in words for the first time.

Explanation:

  • This device first emerged around the time 1900 - 1800 B.C. In Babylon, the capital of Lower Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq. It is the first spatial numbering system with 60 as its base, and they had a distinctive zero sign.
  • The Babylonian method was regarded as the first established positional number system, where the significance of a given digit depends on both the digit itself and its location within the sum.

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