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A friend sent me this information in an e-mail:
How numerals 0 – 9 got their shape – Interesting.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Do you know why numbers look like they do? Someone, at some
point in time, had to create their shapes and meaning.
Watch this short presentation and then you will know how our
Arabic numbers were originally created a very long time ago and what logic
the people that created them used to determine their shapes. It is really
very simple and quite creative.
You have to admire the intelligence of a person or people
that created something so simple and perfect that it has lasted for
thousands and thousands of years and will probably never change.
When the presentation gets to the number “seven” you will
notice that the 7 has a line through the middle of it. That was the way the
Arabic 7 was originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they
still write the 7 that way. Also, in the military, they commonly write it
that way.
The nine has a kind of curly tail on it that has been
reduced, for the most part nowadays, to a simple curve, but the logic
involved still applies.
To visualize this, check out this file: Numbers_PowerPoint

– Len Schiefer