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  2. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    However, the box tally and dot-and-dash tally characters were not accepted for encoding, and only the five ideographic tally marks (正 scheme) and two Western tally digits were added to the Unicode Standard in the Counting Rod Numerals block in Unicode version 11.0 (June 2018). Only the tally marks for the numbers 1 and 5 are encoded, and ...

  3. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    In the Etruscan system, the symbol 1 was a single vertical mark, the symbol 10 was two perpendicularly crossed tally marks, and the symbol 100 was three crossed tally marks (similar in form to a modern asterisk *); while 5 (an inverted V shape) and 50 (an inverted V split by a single vertical mark) were perhaps derived from the lower halves of ...

  4. Unary numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The use of tally marks in counting is an application of the unary numeral system. For example, using the tally mark | (𝍷), the number 3 is represented as |||. In East Asian cultures, the number 3 is represented as 三, a character drawn with three strokes. [6] (One and two are represented similarly.)

  5. Counting Rod Numerals - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals L2/16-065 Lunde, Ken; Miura, Daisuke (2016-03-14), Proposal to encode two Western-style tally marks

  6. List of numeral system topics - Wikipedia

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    Tally mark – Numeral form used for counting-yllion – Mathematical notation This page was last edited on 31 December 2024, at 23:16 (UTC). Text is available ...

  7. Number - Wikipedia

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    In this base 10 system, the rightmost digit of a natural number has a place value of 1, and every other digit has a place value ten times that of the place value of the digit to its right. In set theory, which is capable of acting as an axiomatic foundation for modern mathematics, [34] natural numbers can be represented by classes of equivalent ...

  8. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    The Natural Area Code, this is the smallest base such that all of ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ to ⁠ 1 / 6 ⁠ terminate, a number n is a regular number if and only if ⁠ 1 / n ⁠ terminates in base 30. 32: Duotrigesimal: Found in the Ngiti language. 33: Use of letters (except I, O, Q) with digits in vehicle registration plates of Hong Kong. 34

  9. Counting - Wikipedia

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    Counting a small set of objects, especially over time, can be accomplished efficiently with tally marks: making a mark for each number and then counting all of the marks when done tallying. Tallying is base 1 counting. Finger counting is convenient and common for small numbers. Children count on fingers to facilitate tallying and for performing ...