List of numeral systems
Numeral systems |
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Hindu–Arabic numeral system |
East Asian |
American |
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Alphabetic |
Former |
Positional systems by base |
Non-standard positional numeral systems |
List of numeral systems |
There are many different numeral systems, that is, writing systems for expressing numbers.
By culture / time period[]
Name | Base | Sample | Approx. First Appearance | |||||||||
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Proto-cuneiform numerals | ||||||||||||
Sumerian numerals | 10+60 | 3,100 BCE | ||||||||||
Egyptian numerals | 10 |
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3,000 BCE | |||||||||
Babylonian numerals | 10+60 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
2,000 BCE | |||||||||
Chinese numerals Japanese numerals Korean numerals (Sino-Korean) Vietnamese numerals (Sino-Vietnamese) |
10 |
零一二三四五六七八九十百千萬億 (Default, Traditional Chinese) |
1,600 BCE | |||||||||
Aegean numerals | 10 |