The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic number system was:

  1. base 20 with a zero
  2. base 60 with place value
  3. base 10, with a separate symbol for each power of 10 and no place value
  4. base 2 with a zero
Answer

C) base 10, with a separate symbol for each power of 10 and no place value

Egyptians repeated symbols for 1, 10, 100, 1000, ldots and added them up — base 10, but with no place value and no zero. SLO M-09-A-01 · Knowledge

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