@PonyPon
Well, have you seen ancient Egyptian mathematics?
It has pretty elaborate symbols for the numbers:
1 is shown by a single stroke.
10 is shown by a drawing of a hobble for cattle.
100 is represented by a coil of rope.
1,000 a drawing of a lotus plant.
10,000 is represented by a finger.
100,000 a tadpole or frog
1,000,000 figure of a god with arms raised above his head.
And its addition and multiplication symbols look like walking feet:
Also, do you know that “algebra” originally meant “reunion of broken parts”, or bone-setting?
quaternary numeral system
How is any number greater than 09 expressed using our digits?
The “odometer” rolls over, and we get 10…
So
00, 01, 02, 03, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, etc…
Well, have you seen ancient Egyptian mathematics?
It has pretty elaborate symbols for the numbers:
1 is shown by a single stroke.
10 is shown by a drawing of a hobble for cattle.
100 is represented by a coil of rope.
1,000 a drawing of a lotus plant.
10,000 is represented by a finger.
100,000 a tadpole or frog
1,000,000 figure of a god with arms raised above his head.
And its addition and multiplication symbols look like walking feet:
Really though, such deep meanings applied to equation symbols?