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  2. Regional handwriting variation - Wikipedia

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    The numeral 6: Can be confused with a letter capital G, or the lowercase b, or the nine if inverted. [3] In situations where the number 6 may appear at various angles (such as on billiard balls, some styles of playing cards and dice), it can be underlined (appearing as 6) or followed by a full stop (appearing as 6.

  3. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    A form of unary notation called Church encoding is used to represent numbers within lambda calculus. Some email spam filters tag messages with a number of asterisks in an e-mail header such as X-Spam-Bar or X-SPAM-LEVEL. The larger the number, the more likely the email is considered spam. 10: Bijective base-10: To avoid zero: 26: Bijective base-26

  4. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  5. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Number systems have progressed from the use of fingers and tally marks, perhaps more than 40,000 years ago, to the use of sets of glyphs able to represent any conceivable number efficiently. The earliest known unambiguous notations for numbers emerged in Mesopotamia about 5000 or 6000 years ago.

  6. Eastern Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    Columns of numbers are usually arranged with the decimal points aligned. Negative signs are written to the right of magnitudes, e.g. −٣ (−3). In-line fractions are written with the numerator on the left and the denominator on the right of the fraction slash, e.g. ٢/٧ ( 2 ⁄ 7 ).

  7. List of national flags by design - Wikipedia

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    Nepal: The only national flag that is not rectangular, being made with 5 sides, and the only one that is higher than wide. Bordering aspect ratio of ~ 6:5 Niger: Aspect ratio of 6:7 Qatar: The largest aspect ratio of any national flag, the flag's width 2.545 times as large as the height. Aspect ratio of 11:28

  8. Arabic numerals - Wikipedia

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    However the symbols are also used to write numbers in other bases, such as octal, as well as non-numerical information such as trademarks or license plate identifiers. They are also called Western Arabic numerals , Western digits , European digits , [ 1 ] Ghubār numerals , or Hindu–Arabic numerals [ 2 ] due to positional notation (but not ...

  9. Greek numerals - Wikipedia

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    Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, is a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet.In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world.