[EMAIL PROTECTED] had written: > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:30 AM
... > i will show this assinment to our professor > on 14th of january 2002(monday). Starting research on 2002-01-12 is a bit late then, isn't it? [EMAIL PROTECTED] had written: > i want to know that what r the previous shapes of math's digits > and why these changed from ..... to 1,2,3,4,5,...... > i want to know the main theory of this topic. Marco Cimarosti wrote: > I assume that this is a question about Unicode, Rather, I assume that this is a question about the history of writing systems. For some answers, cf. <http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_numerals.html> <http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Arabic_numerals> <http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/maths/mm2217/han.htm> &c. <http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/numerals.html> (Bibliography) <http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/projects/timeline/600oberlander.html> &c. <http://math.truman.edu/~thammond/history/HinduArabicNumerals.html> &c. <http://www.islamicity.org/mosque/ihame/Ref6.htm> <http://india.coolatlanta.com/GreatPages/sudheer/maths.html> and perhaps <http://www.arabicnumerals.cwc.net/>. You may also wish to learn about the decimal numbering system (a special case of radix systems), cf. <http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Number_system> and of the abacus, a mechanical realisation thereof, cf. <http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Abacus> <http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/>. You may be able to find more information about these topics via an internet search (e. g. <http://www.google.com/intl/en/>) with keywords such as History Arabic numerals History digit Zero Decimal numbering system Radix system Abacus Best wishes, Otto Stolz
