Alphabetic and Multiplicative Systems of Numeration

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Section 1.2 Alphabetic and Multiplicative Systems of Numeration Alphabetic Systems The second basic type of system of numeration developed was based on the written alphabet of the culture. Writing words with an alphabet, unlike the Egyptian pictograms, involved using a symbol for each phonetic sound. This allows the culture to write down a huge number of different words with just a few dozen symbols. The earliest written alphabet was that of the Phoenicia, dating from about the fifteenth century BCE.

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