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Numeral Systems

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  • 3400 BCE

    Egyptians Use Hieroglyphics to Develop First Base 10 System

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  • 1000 BCE

    First Fractions Are Used By Egyptians

    Egyptians developed the first known use of fractions. They looked similar to our modern style of writing them, with one number over another, but their discovery was limited, as they could only use the number 1 in the numerator.
  • 300 BCE

    Zero Is First Used By Indian Mathematicians

    Indian mathematicians developed the number zero as a placeholder, for when a "column" (e.g. tens column, hundreds column, etc.) has no value.
  • 36 BCE

    Mayans Develop Base 20 Counting System

    Similar to how our culture counts using our fingers, Mayans counted using their fingers and toes. Thus, the Mayan counting system was base 20, rather than our base 10.
  • 100

    Hindu-Arabic Numerals Developed in India

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  • 1100

    Hindu-Arabic Numerals Are Introduced To Europe

    Indian Mathematicians introduced the Hindu-Arabic numerals to European mathematicians, and Europe quickly adopted them as their own.

  • Binary Code Invented By Leibniz

    Leibniz invented binary code, which is a base 2 counting system.
    Later in history, this system would become very important as computers began to be developed. Because the system only consists of ones and zeros, computers can read these as "on" or "off".