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The Mayan Numerical System By- Lauren Mayan numbers have been around since 300 A. D. The Mayan's lived on the Yucatan Pennisula in what is now know as southern Mexico. The Mayans that lived there created beautiful temples out of stone. Instead of a base 10 the mayan numerals are base 20. The reason the numerals are base 20 is that the mayans always had their toes visible. This is how they counted. The symbols consist of a dot a line and a shell. These symbols were decided because this way you can write very large numbers with few different symbols. The system was set up so the first five place values were multiples of 20. They were 1, 20, 400, 8,000, and 160,000. Our numerical system has place values, 1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000. The symbols are-

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