It could be said that we actually write numbers from right to left. Take the number 134 for example. You right the hundreds first(1) followed by the tens(3) followed by the units (4). Surely it would ...
Have you ever carefully noticed the digits we use every day - 1, 2, 3, and so on? Have you asked yourself where they came from? Most people think, since we refer to them as "Arabic numerals," that ...