The Egyptian Powers of Ten

The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt from around 3000 BCE until the early first millennium CE. It was a system of numeration based on multiples of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs

Multiples of these values were expressed by repeating the symbol as many times as needed

Egyptian hieroglyphs could be written in both directions, even vertically, these writing conventions are seen preserved in later Greek writings, in what's known as " Boustrophedon "

Boustrophedon is a style of writing, mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions, in which alternate lines of writing are flipped, or reversed, with reversed letters – rather than always flowing left-to-right as in modern European languages, or right-to-left as in Arabic and Hebrew. It was a common way of writing in stone in ancient Greece

The English term comes from Ancient Greek: βουστροφηδόν, boustrophēdón, a composite of βοῦς, bous, "ox"; στροφή, strophē, "turn"; and the adverbial suffix -δόν, "like, in the manner of" – that is, "like the ox turns [while plowing]"

As you read through my notes on the use of triangular figurates in the antiquities, you'll see that in many cases we are using a power of ten, often combined with figurate numbers as is the case of the " Garden ", discussed HERE