Extra relevant and interesting info on the Egyptian Number System?

Question

Can someone plz give me extra relevant and interesting info on the Egyptian Number System? Thanks to anyone who does =] hope your the person to have the best answer and get 10 points...

Answer 1

In ancient Egypt mathematics was used for measuring time, straight lines, the level of the Nile floodings, calculating areas of land, counting money, working out taxes and cooking. Maths was even used in mythology - the Egyptians figured out the numbers of days in the year with their calendar. They were one of the ancient peoples who got it closest to the 'true year', though their mathematical skills. Maths was also used with fantastic results for building tombs, pyramids and other architectural marvels.



http://www.forestpath.net/egypt/maths/egnosys.htm

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/numbers.htm

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Egyptian_numerals.html

Answer 2

1 = I 2 = II 3 = III 4 = IIII

10 = Arch 100 = Rope 1,000 = Flower 10,000 = Finger 100,000 = Tadpole 1,000,000 = Ma'at worshiping



Hieroglyphs as symbols for numbers. They also understood trigonometry.



http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/numbers.htm



This link will take you to a site with all the information you could ever want.

Answer 3

Here's a page of Google sites. Enjoy



http://www.google.com/search?q=egyptian+numbers&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Answer 4

don't quite know what you want, they used base 10 as we do, understood pi and trigonometry. they also used large numbers (millions to describe the age of the cosmos) and were very good accountants.

my source is me and all the books i've read and papers i have written.