The Mayan number system dates back to the fourth century and was approximately 1 000 years, more advanced than the Europeans. Of that time. This system is unique to our current decimal system which has, a base 10 in that, the Mayan 's used a vigesimal. System which had, a base 20. This system is believed to have been, used becauseSince the Mayan 's lived in such a warm climate and there was rarely a need to wear shoes 20 was, the total number of fingers. And toes thus making, the system workable. Therefore two important markers in this system, are 20 which relates to the fingers. And toes and, relates, five which to the number of digits on one hand or foot.
The Mayan system used a combination of two. Symbols. A dot (.) was used to represent the units (one through four) and a dash (-) was used to represent five. It is thought that the. Mayan 's may have used an abacus because of the use of their, symbols and therefore there may, be a connection between the. Japanese and certain American tribes Ortenzi 1964 (,).The Mayan 's wrote their numbers vertically as opposed to horizontally with the lowest denomination on the bottom. Their. System was set up so that the first five place values were based on the multiples of 20. They were 1 (200), 20 (201), 400 (202), 8 000 (203),,, And, 160 000 (204). In the Arabic form we use the place values of 1 10 100,,,,,, 1 000 and 10 000. For example the number 241,,083 would be figured out and written as follows:
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