File:The small abacus of al-Khwārizmī WITH FIVE TEN BASE.tif

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English: This is the figure that explain a “New Typographical Theory Of The Modern European Numbers”.

Each number we use today should be read as a numeric ideogram. Each number were defined using a simple arithmetic: a) The numbers 1 (one), 2 (two), 3 (three) and 4 (four), were based on itself additives angles. b) The numbers 5 (five), 6 (six), 7 (seven), 8 (eight), 9 (nine), and o (ten) were defined using the knowledge about the "small abacus" manuscript notations.

c) The especial “small abacus” has a base-five/ten, similar to the human hands.
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