Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Why Numbers like : 1 is One & 2 is two.... interesting..!

Have you ever thought why........ 1 means "one", and 2 means "two"? The roman numerals are easy to understand but what was the logic behind the phonecian numbers? It's all about angles !
It's the number of angles. If one writes the numbers down (see below) on a piece of paper in their older forms, one quickly sees why.
I have marked the angles with "o"s.
No 1 has one angle.
No 2 has two angles.
No 3 has three angles.
etc.
and "O" has no angles
Interesting, isn't it?
An ancient phonecian manuscript explains this and I thought it to be fascinating.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Pergh! Memang menarik..
Tapi aku ada satu soalan, apsal no kosong tu dilukis melengkung? Bukan ke no. kosong tu boleh buat dari poligon (at least 3 sisi)?

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