Legacy of the Mayans Number System Michelle Beazley Algebra 1 June 9, 2014
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Legacy of the Mayans Number System
Michelle BeazleyAlgebra 1June 9, 2014
About the Mayans The people who developed and used the Mayan Number System was an ancient Maya civilization of Central America. The Maya was the first to use a place value system and a symbol for zero. This number system was used 2000 B.C to AD 250. The Mayans shared theses features with other Mesoamerican civilizations because of the high degree of interaction and culture diffusions that characterized the region. This advanced writing, epigraphy, including the calendar.
Map of where the Mayans were located
They Mayans are people from Mexico and Central America. The Mayans “have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras.”
The bases of the MayansVigesimal is the base that the Mayans used to count, with a 5 base within a base of 20 because they used their feet as well to count. Ones, Twenties, Four Hundreds, Eight
Thousands is the four place values for the number system.
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