The English language is made up of 26 characters. Those letters are combined into words and then into sentences Ancient Egyptian writing has more than 2,000 hieroglyphic characters, with each hieroglyphic represents a common thing or object. Hieroglyphics could represent an image of an idea that has to do with the object or it could represent the sound of the object.
10 characters (0-9) are used in the modern system of numbering that may represent all possible numbers. The Egyptian numbering system used to also be based on units of 10, but the Egyptians used different images to represent different units of 10 instead of relying on the position of the numbers to define their value.
References:
Hieroglyphic Numbers. 2013. Hieroglyphic Numbers. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/numbers.html. [Accessed 19 May 2013].
Hieroglyphics:Student Worksheet. 2013. Hieroglyphics:Student Worksheet. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.internal.schools.net.au/edu/lesson_ideas/egypt/src/mockup/egypt_actsht1_p1.html. [Accessed 19 May 2013].
4.1. 2013. 4.1. [ONLINE] Available at:http://mathematics.gulfcoast.edu/leolusk/4_1.htm. [Accessed 19 May 2013].
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