A timeline of numerals and arithmetic. c. 20,000 BC — Nile Valley, Ishango Bone: suggested, though disputed, as the earliest reference to prime numbers...

other Number theory – Mathematics of integer properties Timeline of mathematics Timeline of numerals and arithmetic Ifrah (2000), p. 47–61, ch. 3, "The...

contrast, is used by most computers and represents numbers as combinations of the basic numerals 0 and 1. Some arithmetic systems operate on mathematical...

Babylonian numerals are non-positional, as are many developed later, such as the Roman numerals. The French Cistercian monks created their own numeral system...

theorem of arithmetic. c. 300 BC – India, Brahmi numerals (ancestor of the common modern base 10 numeral system) 370 BC – 300 BC – Greece, Eudemus of Rhodes...

work On the Use of the Indian Numerals (ca. 830). Today the name Hindu–Arabic numerals is usually used. Historians trace modern numerals in most languages...

boxes, or other symbols. Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe...

counting, natural numbers and arithmetic. To avoid overlap with timeline of historic inventions, the timeline does not list examples of documentation for manufactured...

Modified arithmetic methods for the Indian numeral system to make it possible for pen and paper use. Hitherto, doing calculations with the Indian numerals necessitated...

digits in various types of proto-writing during the Chalcolithic. Egyptian numerals Babylonian cuneiform numerals Aegean numerals Abacus – Calculating tool...