used by pre-ancient-Greece Mediterranean civilizations; a non-positional base-ten system with symbols for powers of ten up to 10,000
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used by pre-ancient-Greece Mediterranean civilizations; a non-positional base-ten system with symbols for powers of ten up to 10,000
used in Aztec maps/pictograms from Mesoamerica; a non-positional base-twenty system with symbols for powers of 20 up to 8000 and additional symbols for 10 and small multiples of 100
used by Cistercian monks; a base-ten system in which each number up to 9999 has its own symbol; place values are indicated by the position along the central numeral line
hieroglyphs used in Egyptian civilzations; a non-positional base-ten system with symbols for powers of ten up to 1,000,000
developed by Kaktovik civilizations of Alaska; a positional base-twenty system with iconic numerals
used by the Mayans in Mesoamerica; a positional base-twenty system with symbols for 1, 5, and 0 arranged vertically
used in Chinese civilizations; a positional base-ten system with symbols for 0-9, 10, 20, and 30