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Converting Numbers from Egyptian Number System to Hindu Number System
Last updated at November 24, 2025 by Teachoo
Class 8 (Ganita Prakash & Old NCERT)
Chapter 3 Class 8 - A Story of Numbers (Ganita Prakash)
- Introduction
- The Mechanism of Counting
- Some Early Number Systems
- Roman Numerals
- Figure it out - Page 60, 61
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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
Converting Numbers from Egyptian Number System to Hindu Number System Lets take some examples Convert to Hindu Number System The number is Number = 4 × 1000 + 6 × 100 + 2 × 10 + 2 × 1 =4000 + 600 + 20 + 2 = 4622 Convert to Hindu Number System The number is Number = 106 + 105 + 2 × 102 = 10,00,000 + 1,00,000 + 200 = 11,00,200
