Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c5.s6.22

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The Kharoṣṭhī was particularly script of North-Western India (including Afganisthan and the Northern Punjab). It disappeared in the 3rd century A.D. In the Kharoṣṭhī numerals, there were separate symbols for one, four, ten, twenty and hundred. They were written from right to left with lower elements before the higher. For example, the number 122 was expressed by symbols of 2, 20, 100, and 274 by 4, 10, 20, 20, 20, 200. But in cases of the hundred and its multiples, the symbols for the smaller elements were placed after the symbol for hundred to denote multiplication. All these were common with the principles underlying other systems of Semitic numeral notation which we have discussed before.