Maya numerals

The club uses Maya numerals on the back of their jersey to identify a player's position.

Adding and subtracting numbers below 20 using Maya numerals is very simple.

Other than the bar and dot notation, Maya numerals can be illustrated by face type glyphs or pictures.

A vigesimal system with 5 as a sub-base is found in Nahuatl and the Maya numerals.

Although zero became an integral part of Maya numerals, it did not influence Old World numeral systems.

(See Maya numerals).

See also Maya numerals and Maya calendar, Mayan languages, Yucatec.

The exact age of the Maya numerals is unclear, but it is possible that it is older than the Hindu-Arabic system.

Maya numerals are a vigesimal (base-twenty) numeral system used by the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization.

In common with the other Mesoamerican civilizations, the Maya used a base 20 (vigesimal) and base 5 numbering system (see Maya numerals).

Between 1880 and 1900, Dresden librarian Ernst Wilhelm Förstemann succeeded in deciphering the calendar section including the Maya numerals used in the codex.

This table shows the Maya numerals and the number names in Yucatec Maya, Nahuatl in modern orthography and in Classical Nahuatl.

Some include the classical Mesoamerican cultures, still in use today in the modern indigenous languages of their descendants, namely the Nahuatl and Mayan languages (see Maya numerals).

It depicted one bar and one dot, the way "6" is written in Maya numerals, evoking ancient astronaut theories due to the popular belief that crop circles are the result of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

The late Olmec people of south-central Mexico began to use a true zero (a shell glyph) in the New World possibly by the 4th century BC but certainly by 40 BC, which became an integral part of Maya numerals and the Maya calendar.