Thursday 3 January 2013

Math Or Number System



Number
In the very beginning , the human life was simple.An early ancient herdsman compared cattle of his herd with a pile of Stones, when the herd the herd left for grazing and again on its return for missing animals.
The Egyptian and including many people was used the symbol "IIIII" for the numbers of  fingures of one hand. 
Different People invented their own symbols for numbers.
Numbers were first used by Paleolithic peoples around 30000 BC. The word Zero is derived from the Arabic translation of the Sanskrit śūnya, meaning void or empty, into ṣifr (صفر) meaning empty or vacant.

The first use of Negative numbers can be traced back to 100 BC - 50 BC. By the 4th century BC, late Olmec people of south-central Mexico used the number zero. According to Francis Maseres, an English mathematician, negative numbers do not exist. In 1759 he wrote that " negative numbers darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their nature excessively obvious and simple".
                                        

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