Questions tagged [numerals]

Symbols or words that depict a number. Examples are "4", "15" or "three hundred twenty-one". A numeral may consist of one or more digits. Numerals are the symbolic or linguistic representations of abstract mathematical objects called "numbers".

For the difference between numerals, numbers and digits see here.

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Old-Persian Numeral System

Does any body know how old-Persian numeral were used and provide some example? (source of image is Unicode characters maps)
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Is the numeral or the noun the head? Does it vary depending on the language?

Many (all?) languages have possession of some kind. Whether the language is possessor-possessum or possessum-possesor, the possessum is the head of the phrase. I'm wondering whether the numeral or the noun is an expression like three chickens is the…
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