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Kharosthi Numerals
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The numerals used in various languages, living and extinct, show their origins in stroke marks or scores (cuts), like the Chinese , and early forms of some Hindu-Arabic-European numerals.
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The numerals used in various languages, living and extinct, show their origins in stroke marks or scores (cuts), like the Chinese 一二三, and early forms of some Hindu-Arabic-European numerals. The following are Kharosthi numerals, the earliest forms known from India. Kharosthi was written from right to left, like the source for its writing, Aramaic.
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Counting Rod Numerals and Mayan numerals (below) show clear indications of counting on fingers up to five, then with a whole hand for five plus fingers of the second hand, as in Roman numerals.
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𐩀 𐩁 𐩂
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Counting Rod Numerals and Mayan numerals (below) show clear indications of counting on fingers up to five, then with a whole hand for five plus fingers of the second hand, as in Roman numerals. Kharosthi numerals indicate counting on four fingers but not the thumb. The Kharosthi numeral for 4 is very similar to X, so 7 in Kharosthi could be written (right-to-left, again) )))X.
    
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i ii iii iiii v vi vii viii viiii
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