The Egyptians – Numerals

The Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphs using symbols for both numbers and words

There were different hieroglyphs for 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000

	=1
	= 10
	= 100
	= 1,000
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	= 10,000
	= 100,000
	= 1,000,000

Numbers were written with the highest number first

For example:

1,111 =
200,250 =
1,122,132 =

*Main image by Jeff Dahl

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