Mayan Mathematical System

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 20:21.

Ancient (BCE-40 CE)
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http://www.cancunsteve.com/mayan.htm

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Cancun Steve

Excerpt:

THE MAYAN NUMBERS The Mayan' s number system is in some respects very similar to ours. They used only 3 symbols as opposed to our 10 and at the time hundreds of symbols used in Roman Numerals. These symbols are shown below.