How numerals 0 - 9 got their shape

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. Arabic numbers were originally created a very long time ago. 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.

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.

The number of angles gives meaning to each number.

Number 1 has one angle
Number 2 has two angles
Number 3 has three angles and so on

Observe the letter Zero. It has no angles

Interesting. Isn’t?