3:20 This counting animation isn't completely right, because the dots were actually placed symmetrically, especially when over bars. 6 is a bar with a dot over the middle; 7 is a bar with a dot on the left and a dot on the right; 8 adds the third dot in the centre. They didn't appear from the left like this shows.
This is an absolutely natural system. An intelligent listener really needs some 5 seconds to understand it. It is about as effective as our system - but needs fewer independent characters. If the numbers were rotated by 90 degrees, to agree with the positioning in our decimal system, this system could even be used right away and typed using rather ordinary keyboards.
@@330MillionGods I don't think so, it's really simple. I don't know why it is prone to error, you just need to write right number of dots. That's not that confusing.
Not much is known about pre-Cortez Central America. The Mayans at this point were a remanence of what they were during their classical era, the Aztecs were the sheriffs of town. Olmecs are even more mysterious. But any American school system worth their salt would have talked about American tribes in 6th grade. Not as much detail as one would probably want but definitely more than we talked about Africa.
and west uses the 5000 year old sumerian clockcycle based on the 60 system - I wonder what else is out there to discover - could maya numerals have competition in south america
Rather we are Mayan,Mexica,Lakota,Zuni,Nicoya, or any other indigenous of Cemanahuac(the so called Western Hemisphere) have been discriminated and the mass of us are left poor in our own lands for over 5 centuries. Make no mistake it's not just our Mayan brothers and sisters being oppressed in the so called America's!
Actually I am a Mayan and maths to me always have been easy... Most of my people do not have big inventions today because most of them are poor and they live in bad conditions...
Your designer was lazy, or you were un-informed, that the dots above a 'line' are always placed and re-arranged when added to, in accordance with practical 'balance'. (Think stones over a bar - forming a see-saw) Stones are placed to always remain balance. Ex. 1Stone= Center, 2= Opposite ends, 3= Opposite ends + one in the center, 4= Opposite ends, with two equally spaced in the middle. *Not from Left to Right
It is all because of the dead fish that I am bad at maths. (I live in the UK and never been near a Myan school) but it is my excuse and I am sticking to it.)
Based on the example shown toward the end of the video, does anyone know how you would distinguish between 25 and 6 with the shown square separations? They both would have the same notation of one bar at the bottom and one dot on top. Would a bigger space be left between them to make it apparent that it is 25?
25 = (the top square) dot = 20 (bottom square) dot = 1 (bottom square) bar = 5 the six is on the bottom ( the base 20x0, bottom square) the twenty is the dot above that (the base 20x1, top square). 20= (the top square) - dot = 20 (bottom square) - shell = 0
I know to 0 is a shell, 1 adds a Dot, 2 Adds another dot, 3 Adds another Dot,4 Adds another Dot,5 Is a line, 6 Adds another dot, 7 Adds another Dot. Up to 19, 3 Lines then what will happen next…
If I have well followed this, if in each ''box'' we put the greatest value (3 bars and 4 dots, so 19), for example, the value of 19 in the one's place, plus 19 in the 20s place (thus 19*20=380), in the 400s place (19*400=7,600) and in the 8000s place (19*8000=152,000) and that we add all these together, does that mean the the largest number would end up to 159,969? what if they wanted to have greater numbers?
Rémi St-Jacques You can just keep going. What if someone using the decimal wanted a number greater than 9999? They would simply add another number (x * 10^4 in this case). For your example, they'd add a place for values of x * 20^4.
Okay, so you used boxes to separate the positions of a Mayan number's digits. But how did the Mayans do it without the boxes? I mean that without the boxes, 6 and 21 would look very similar if you'd write down Mayan numbers from bottom to top.
And so Mayans Use 0,1,5 For math,I know to add Dots and lines not a line. But with these stuff I Don? 0 Is a shell,1 is a Dot, And 5 Is a Line, But With a decimal value of The FE,s A lot of Mayans did not use numbers with new numbers! Also, With only use keys right Away in 1963, Finally, This worth
Cooper Gates No matter what base you use, it doesn't change the fact that 2+2=4 or that F = m*V. I'd like to think that if the Norse had stayed in North America, Norse explorers (as well as other Indians in our timeline's Canada and America) would have brought the concept of the zero number to "Europe" much earlier, thus negating the need to wait for the Crusades to happen. Hell, the American Indians would have fared far better in the long run had Leif Ericsson and his men not called it quits on Newfoundland after two years. If they'd permanently settled the Americas, the Norse would have introduced ironworking, Old World domestic flora & fauna, practical use of the wheel beyond toys, and possibly spread writing to more tribes (Yes, I know some peoples such as the Aztecs, Maya, Lenape, and Ojibwa had some form of writing or another, and Sequoyah created the Cherokee syllabary, which is still in use today in parts of North Carolina and Oklahoma, but most peoples didn't). Aside from the trade and exchange of goods, services, and ideas, the Indians would have been exposed to the Old World diseases earlier, giving them more time to develop immunity and recover. Using our timeline's Imperial Japan as a model, one or more tribes, maybe a Mississippian city-state or two might have modernized and pursued expansionist policies, doing the same things you'd expect any powerful civilization of the day to do. The Norse wouldn't have arrived in as large of numbers as our timeline's "European" newcomers, though, so the diseases might not ravage the Indians as quickly or by as much. The situation might have instead been more like our timeline's colonial Africa, India, China, and Southeast "Asia", where the whites remained a minority (e.g., South Africa, which has NEVER had a majority white population). Culturally, though, we'd see some blend of Norse and Amerindian patterns. Paganism might have remained dominant, with religion ultimately dying out altogether. Leif Ericsson, like many Norsemen of his time, was a Christian, and Scandinavia was in the process of being Christianized. How could the then-Papal States control any Norse outposts in Canada? Rome was an ocean and sea away! Surely some pagan holdouts and Christians who didn't agree with Catholic doctrine might have fled to the Americas. They'd have likely traded and gotten it on with the local Indians just like you'd expect anyone else to. "Viking" wasn't an ethnicity so much as a job title. Your average Viking wasn't so much a violent brute as a hard-bargaining trader. They knew that killing one's own customers is no way to make money. Using our timeline's Normans, Yorkshiremen, and Kievan Rus' as a model, it's likely that some Norse migrants would have assimilated and married into the tribes of the East Coast. If Christianity even took hold in the Americas at all in this timeline, it might remain a fringe movement, seen as uniquely Eurasian and not taken seriously by a majority of the population. Technology could possibly even take a different path, leading to an earlier Industrial Revolution in the Americas. The Vikings had trade networks spanning as far west as Baffin Island in the Canadian territory of Nunavut to as far east as Russia and Turkey. They even raided and traded into Spain, which at the time was mostly under Muslim rule. At this point, Islam, for all its barbarity, was totally into math and science. It's why we have the words "algebra", "alchemy", "almanac", "alcohol", "chemistry", and the names of many prominent stars such as Aldebaran. While Catholic "Europe" was stuck in the Dark Ages, the Arabs, Persians, and Berbers were busy preserving and translating the writings of the Greeks and Romans. It's likely that one or more Muslim scholars such as Ibn al-Hazen could have Shanghaied scientific texts to the New World, translated them into the indigenous languages & imported Old Norse, and kicked off a technological revolution. Like Christians, Muslims and perhaps Jews would probably also be a tiny minority, taken as seriously by most people as ancient astronaut believers are now. Perhaps some inventive Indian, Norseman, or Nordic mestizo would have implemented Hero of Alexandria's steam engine and vending machine. Maybe gunpowder could have spread from China via the Middle East to the Americas, directly from China via the West Coast tribes, or been invented independently. By the 15th-18th centuries, the new "European" migrants would have a hell of a time trying to remove any tribes. They wouldn't dare try to kick anyone off their land unless they were masochists with excellent health insurance. The technological difference might be too great for the new Britons, Spaniards, French, Portuguese, Dutch, or Swedes (northern Delaware) to enslave or exterminate their American contemporaries. If they had working brains, they'd concentrate on trade and diplomacy instead. Or the Nordic/Amerindian descendant nations might go and conquer Eurasian peoples & countries. By now, those Indians and Nordic mestizos would probably be colonizing Mars, Venus (cloud cities), and perhaps the Jovian, Saturnian, Uranian, and Neptunian moons. Perhaps the Kuiper Belt's ice planets such as Pluto, Sedna, Quaoar, Eris, etc. Maybe they'll have figured out interstellar travel and made new homes in other solar systems by now, colonizing the galaxy. It'd be the kind of society that'd make Carl Sagan proud.
+AirCooledMan2006 F = force? Fvector = mass * AccelVector (scalar * vector) Well, decimal vs. vigesimal isn't a big difference, but it might help with fractions to use a multiple of 6 base. 1/3 in senary: 0.2 dozenal: 0.4 Octodecimal: 0.6
Actually, subtractive Roman numbers did not exist. So 9 = VIIII, and 4 = IIII, thus 13 = V IIII IIII = V IIIII III = V V III = XIII. (I used Harry Pothead with my niece and got an "ugh", LOL)
ALL FOR THE POWER & GLORY OF THE MOST HIGH,YHWH! THE CREATOR MADE ONE LAND MASS.THESE CIVILIZATION'S MAY HAVE BEEN AROUND BEFORE THE ICE-AGE AND JUST HAPPENED TO STAY INTACT, DURING THE BREAK-UP.
The video is wrong when it says "each place can hold 19 values". Each place can hold 20 values including the shell (zero), but it can only count up to 19. You can say "it can count up to 19" or "the largest value in each place is 19", but he keeps saying "it can only hold 19 values", which is wrong.
1:35-shouldn't Number Systems be simple? I mean, that's what makes them so effective. Why create a ridiculously complicated system? No one is going to use that.
@@ricardozuniga8710 yea but we not u we did not learn it as a kid and ur right we might find it easy when we get the hang of it but for now its very hard and everyone saying its simple does not help
Who is Mayan ( மயன்), in India „“Ramayanam“, was holly Scriptures, in that there was a king „“ Rawanan „, Who take the Sita ( Queen) and gone to Srilanka? Rawanan‘s uncle was „“Mayan“, he was the person who went to America and lived, ( there was fighting going in Srilanka , Rams and Rawanan, that ( Mayan) Who left Srilanka and go towards east ( traveling in sea by - Kstu Msran / Kallam, and reached Mexico, ( nearly -150- day taken)‘ in Mayan language and Tamilan language had lot of words/sentences was Similar-! ( Appan -Fsther, / Yar -Who,/ Molle-daughter,/Al -People,/ Tollilali-Labor,:/ Colli ( Kovil )- Temple, like lot,
Perhaps what we know as numbers for counting and calculations are relative, and zero is optional. Let us consider an example of representing vigesimal numbers without any use of zero, click on drive.google.com/file/d/1S1s4MmHV1Y-IdkXtw6C-C-wB3XLGRA8-/view?usp=sharing
