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Our Number System

by Ayano a& Michika

We believe that ancient civilizations developed number systems because they needed signs to keep track of their possessions. We think the Roman number system was the most creative and also they made it quite easy to write and read. Even if the number systems are creative and beautiful but they are difficult to read and write they are not useful.

We got the idea for our number system from Ayano's room. She had lots of nice stickers laying on the floor and some of them were triangles, hearts, and stars. We took the triangles, hearts. and stars and the idea of the tornado.

According to our system, the number "125" would be written

The number 639 would look like this:

Here is an example of our number system.




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