Why Numbers like : 1 is One & 2 is two, have you ever thought why ……..
1 means “one”, and 2 means “two”? The roman numerals are easy to understand but what was the logic behind the Phoenician numbers?
It’s all about angles! It’s the number of angles. If one writes the numbers down (see below) on a piece of paper in their older forms, one quickly sees why. I have marked the angles with “o”s. Digit 1 has one angle, Digit 2 has two angles, Digit 3 has three angles and so on…and “O” has no angles
Interesting, isn’t it? An ancient Phoenician manuscript explains this.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
I don’t buy it!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:03 am
I dont buy it either. The Phoenicians were much more “Marking” oriented. Please see:
http://phoenicia.org/alphabet.html
for verification of this.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Bullshit!!
Nice try, though.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Always sharing wisdom with those who think they’re masters of knowledge.
http://phoenicia.org/imgs/phoenumbering.jpg
July 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
plus, I believe Phoenicians didn’t know ZERO as a number.
Curiously enough, these numeral “symbols” have been roaming around the web faster than the real ones.
shame shame shame
March 5th, 2010 at 3:34 am
Nice hoax. But old. My father told me this in the late 80s, before the world wide web. I presume he was, in turn, told this as a boy.
But, of course, I know now it’s just all a form of “folk etymology”.