Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c5.s6.16

c5.s6.16

The Chinese in their Counting rod forms between 2nd century B.C. to 4th century A.D. used separate symbols for one, six, ten, sixty. Symbols for one was repeated to express numbers upto five and the values for seven to nine were represented by successive addition of symbols for one to that of six. For the numbers of the next higher order than 100, different symbols were used.