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Hieroglyphics: Numbers
10 characters (0-9)
used in modern numbering system to represent all possible
numbers
Position of
character within larger number is important to defining its value
Each character to
the right implies a zero which increases the value of that number by ten times.
751 equals 700 + 50
+ 1
751 does not equal 7
+ 5 + 1