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Example 1 - Page 71 - Chapter 3 Class 8 - A Story of Numbers (Ganita Prakash)
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Class 8 (Ganita Prakash - 1, 2 & 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
- 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
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Mesopotamian Number System
- Mayan Number System
- Chinese Number System
- Hindu Number System
- Evolution of Ideas in Number Representation
- Figure it out - Page 80
Transcript
Example 1 - Page 71 Represent the number 640 in this system.Writing the number as multiples of 3600, 60, 10, 1 Now, 640 = 600 + 40 = 10 × 60 + 40 Writing in Place value table So, we write the number 640 as
