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#21
May 27 2016 02:48pm
Go look up hexadecimal(base 16) there should be plenty of guides explaining that, from there base 20 is just another simple step.
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May 28 2016 04:26am
Quote (thesnipa @ May 27 2016 10:32pm)
399 = 19 "20'S" AND 1 "19" symbol

400 = 20 "20's", which puts it up to the next category of symbols into the 3rd column. The same way that in our base 10 system going over 9 of any number pushes it to the next column so to speak.


that's what i thought but havent seen anything like that in pictures so left me wondering :)
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#23
May 29 2016 12:37am
What needs explaining? Languages evolve.
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May 29 2016 12:40am
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What needs explaining? Languages evolve.


Read the topic eh?
Is the geometrical symbolic significance
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May 29 2016 03:07pm
Quote (BebebBurns @ May 29 2016 12:40am)
Read the topic eh?
Is the geometrical symbolic significance


Origin of the brahmi numerals the pre-cursor that Arabic numerals.

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he source of the first three numerals seems clear: they are collections of 1, 2, and 3 strokes, in Ashoka's era vertical I, II, III like Roman numerals, but soon becoming horizontal like the modern Chinese numerals. In the oldest inscriptions, 4 is a +, reminiscent of the X of neighboring Kharoṣṭhī, and perhaps a representation of 4 lines or 4 directions. However, the other unit numerals appear to be arbitrary symbols in even the oldest inscriptions


The story of how one chicken scratch came to mean something diferant from the next is rather dull generally.
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May 29 2016 03:28pm
Quote (BebebBurns @ May 29 2016 12:40am)
Read the topic eh?
Is the geometrical symbolic significance


What?
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#27
Jul 24 2016 01:59am
5 never been 4, just looks like 4 but its one more than 4.
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#28
Jul 24 2016 10:30am
lol romans sucked at numerals

arabs >
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Jul 24 2016 12:56pm
Quote (BebebBurns @ May 26 2016 03:24pm)

also someone in south america had map of antarctica without ice
http://www.earthbeforeflood.com/images/antarctida-map.jpg
or is it a hoax


Interesting, just tells me the were probably peddling the globe hoax 20 thousand years ago, I guess people like to believe that one.
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Jul 27 2016 07:20pm
Quote (BebebBurns @ May 24 2016 03:52am)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjKx59yUoAArYsY.jpg

can someone explain?


The symbols pre-1442 resemble the sanskrit symbols for Mercury and Jupiter





Mercury and Jupiter were the 4th and 5th planets respectively in their life-view, so I can see why the symbols pre-1442 resemble that.

Looking at the days of the week (made pre-1400) also agrees with this Wednesday-Mercury & Thursday-Jupiter.

This is purely conjecture on my part.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Jul 27 2016 07:22pm
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