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Why Does Our Hindu-Arabic Number System Work So Well?

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Why Does Our Hindu-Arabic Number System Work So Well?
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Translate this number from Egyptian Heiroglyphics to Hindu-Arabic.

654

CDLVI

456

645

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the base of the Maya number system?

10

20

100

2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What Persian mathematician introduced the Hindu-Arabic number system in Europe?

al-Khwarizmi

Albert Einstein

Leonardo diVinci

Alakazam

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What word or phrase means "ways to use numbers to count and do arithmetic"?

base

place value

Hindu-Arabic system

number system

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What word or phrase means "no quantity or number"?

thousand

zero

fraction

base

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does the definition of the word "base" as it is used in the article?

the number of symbols that could be arranged to create any number in a number system

the lowest part or edge of something

the lowest part of a shield

an important element or ingredient to which other things are added

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the base of our Hindu-Arabic number system?

infinity

zero

ten

twenty

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