Wednesday 16 May 2012

Babylonian Number System

Babylonian number system

      
                          
                History
The Babylonian number system started more than 500 years ago in Mesopotamia. It is one of the oldest number systems. They had one of the most advanced number systems. It had a base of sixty unlike our system which has a base of 10.

Symbols

The Babylonians did not technically have a digit for, or a concept of, the number zero. Although they understood the idea of nothingness, it was not seen as a number—merely the lack of a number.

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