<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt from around 3000 BC until the early first millennium AD . It was a system of numeration based on multiples of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs . The Egyptians had no concept of a place - valued system such as the decimal system . The hieratic form of numerals stressed an exact finite series notation, ciphered one to one onto the Egyptian alphabet . </P> <P> The following hieroglyphs were used to denote powers of ten: </P>

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