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The Visual Evolution of Our Digits
Last updated at July 23, 2026 by Teachoo
Class 8 (Ganita Prakash - 1, 2 & Old NCERT)
Chapter 3 Class 8 - A Story of Numbers (Ganita Prakash)
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Introduction
- The Mechanism of Counting
- Some Early Number Systems
- Roman Numerals
- Figure it out - Page 60, 61
- Egyptian Number System
- Variations on the Egyptian System and the Notion of Base
- Adding Egyptian Numerals
- Multiplying Egyptian Numerals
- Distributive Law – For Egyptian Numerals
- Abacus that Makes Use of the Decimal System
- Shortcomings of the Egyptian System
- Figure it out - Page 69
- Mesopotamian Number System
- Mayan Number System
- Chinese Number System
- Hindu Number System
- Evolution of Ideas in Number Representation
- Figure it out - Page 80
Transcript
The Visual Evolution of Our DigitsThe shape of the digits 0, 1, 2, ..., 9 evolved like We note that It starts with the ancient Brahmi script. This evolves into the Hindu (Gwalior) script, which clearly shows a small circle or dot for zero. The Hindu script then branches out into: Sanskrit-Devanagari (used for Hindi and other Indian languages today). East Arabic (numerals still used in many parts of the Arab world). West Arabic (Gubar). The modern digits we use in English and most of the world today are shown evolving directly from the West Arabic script, passing through forms used in the 11th, 15th , and 16th centuries.
