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The complete Writing in Maya Glyphs Book 2 - Famsi

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6 =<br />

7 =<br />

8 =<br />

9 =<br />

10 =<br />

Thus, count<strong>in</strong>g each dot as a one, and a bar as a five, we just use<br />

the right number of dots and bars to add up to the number we<br />

want.<br />

Just as when they wrote words, the <strong>Maya</strong> used a lot of<br />

variety <strong>in</strong> writ<strong>in</strong>g numbers. <strong>The</strong>y could write their numbers with<br />

horizontal bars and the dots above, just as we have shown above.<br />

Or they could write their numbers with vertical bars and the dots<br />

10

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