P. HISTORY OF ' AATHEMATICAL - School of Mathematics

12 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICAL NOTATIONS
17. The hieroglyphic symbols were I] for 1, D for 10, C for 100,
r for 1,000, ) for 10,000, % for ioo,ooo, & for i,ooo,ooo, Q for
10,000,000. The symbol for 1 represents a vertical staff; that for
1,000 a lotus that for 10,000 a pointing finger; that for 100,000
a burbot; that for 1,000,000 a man in astonishment, or, as more recent
FIG. 5.-Egyptian numerals. Hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic numeral
symbols. (This table was compiled by Kurt Sethe.)
Egyptologists claim, the picture of the cosmic deity Hh.' The symbols
for 1 and 10 are sometimes found in a horizontal position.
18. We reproduce in Figures 5 and 6 two tables prepared by Kurt
is explained by F. L. Grifith, Cakdogue of the Demotic Pa+ in the John Rylands
Library (Manchester, 1909), Vol. 111, p. 415 I., and by H. Brugsch, earnmawe
dkndique, $8 131 ff.
Sethe, op. d., p. 11, 12.