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An Introductory Guide to Ancient Counting Systems
Sticking to elementary mathematics, this text is a short introduction to understanding historical and comparative counting systems. It gives a brief historical and contextual overview, along with showing how to read and count in a number of ancient systems including Egyptian, Babylonian, Mayan, Roman, Hebrew, Intuit, binary, Quipu and abacus.
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