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The Egyptians
Numerals
The Egyptians wrote in hieroglyphs using symbols for both numbers and words
There were different hieroglyphs for 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000
= 1

= 10

= 100
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= 1,000
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= 10,000

= 100,000

= 1,000,000
Numbers were written with the highest number first
For example:
1,111 =
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200,250 =









1,122,132 =


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