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Question 2 - Figure it out (Page 62) - Egyptian Number System - Chapter 3 Class 8 - A Story of Numbers (Ganita Prakash)
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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
Question 2(i) - Figure it out (Page 62) What numbers do these numerals stand for?The number is Number = 2 × 100 + 7 × 10 + 6 × 1 =200 + 70 + 6 = 276 Symbol Value Meaning 1 Stroke 10 Heel Bone/Arch 9 Coiled Rope/Spiral Lotus Flower P Bent Finger Burbot/Fish/Tadpole Man with arms up SunQuestion 2 - Figure it out (Page 62) What numbers do these numerals stand for?The number is Number = 4 × 1,000 + 3 × 100 + 2 × 10 + 2 × 1 = 4,000 + 300 + 20 + 2 = 4,322
