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The oldest evidence of counting in India, dating back to the stone age (11,000-8,000 years ago) is the tally marks engraved on a soft white tropical wood cut to look like a dagger or knife. #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
Regularized decimal system of number words to express quantity was well established in Vedic corpus (Rig Veda). #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
One of the classical language of India, Tamil is unmistakably decimal in its number names. But the numbers were non place value with special symbols for 10, 100 e.t.c #IndianHeritage #Mathematics Image
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