Egyptian numerals

The number 1,000 in ancient Egyptian numerals is represented by the symbol of the white lotus.

Egyptian numerals date back to the Predynastic period.

Ancient Egyptian numerals were base 10.

In sign-value notation systems like Egyptian numerals, where order is irrelevant, one might say that all characters are in the units place.

For more information on this subject, see Egyptian numerals, Eye of Horus, and Egyptian mathematics.

The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt until the early first millennium AD.

The sometimes rather striking graphic similarity they have with the hieratic and demotic Egyptian numerals is not good evidence of a historical connection, as many cultures have independently recorded numbers as collections of strokes.