Does any body know how old-Persian numeral were used and provide some example?
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Sign up to join this communityDoes any body know how old-Persian numeral were used and provide some example?
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Old Persian numerals were treated somewhat like Roman numerals: they were based on juxtaposition or addition[PDF], and not place-value [PDF] like Arabic, Mayan, or Bablylonian numerals
Unlike Roman, the numerals were always placed in a single direction (largest-value-on-the-left); there was no subtractive notation like IV for 4. Also, Roman had symbols for 5 (V), 50 (L), 500 (D) instead of 2, 20.
So n Old Persian, "5" was 2 2 1
and "18" was 10 2 2 2 2
. Decimal 453
would have been 100 100 100 100 20 20 10 2 1
.