So 伍 is not 5, but five.

Their math homework must take forever

Does 0 have a shorthand character as well?

I don't get 4. At least the kanji 4 looks very different

Oh, cool af! I got adviced to always write years with all 4 numbers not to allow forgeries

The fact that such intricate characters can even be displayed in such tiny fonts is nothing short of obscene lol, I wonder if chinese phones all have that Assistive / Readability Mode where the text is enlarged and high contrast by default, because I can't imagine reading texts like that haha

In OPs post, I see a stick figure guy pooping. Jack shit. Zero

Under the arms and from the butt are the orifices?

The Greeks felt the same - thankfully Eastern philosophy had a different take on it.

I was thinking it was so scary, it’s someone pissing themself

I thought it was a ghost

I mean... in English we also use different words, such as "pair" and "dozen", for some specific numbers.

Huh. I learnt that 两 is for counting everything. Er is only used if you spell out a number. Like you can't say "erge ren", must be "liangge ren". Maybe you're confusing it with another liang character, the measure for cars?

Sorry, I might be wrong, my Chinese isn't the best.

What about accounting numbers? They'll make anyone cry

How many gears is that?

I'm at a loss for words

:.|:;

-1

I'm at a loss

e:f;b

Is this Garfield Breast Reduction?

That's the map of the forth level of the dungeon in "Vampires for Hire".

And now an English lesson:

The past tense of teach is taught. Teached is not a word.

I see, the right column is used because they share their Chinese reading 音読み with the numbers, that makes sense. I don't know all of the Kanji, but the ones I know fit.

based

I'm partial to the Japanese-invented 𱁬

Here's in image in case it doesn't show up

Though it's pretty simple once you see it's just 2 kanji repeated 3 times. There's also a good one that is 4 龍 in a 2 by 2 grid, meaning "verbose" (haha)

In the history of mathematics, -1 was understood waaaay before 0.

For the Greeks, doing 1-1 would be invalid, something close to dividing by zero for us.

Zero is also a relatively new invention

I saw a video years ago where somebody was talking (with a translator) to a tribe, I forget where. He asked how do they count. They would point with one hand to the other hand. Once they've got to five they start pointing to other parts of the arm moving upwards. He then asked what if you need to count higher. They looked confused, why would they need to count higher.

For them they could exist without needing to count beyond teens.

How about -2?

Mathematics for much of human history was discrete - it had to be connected to something tangible which you can see, touch or feel. Negative numbers first arose in China, subsequently the use numerical operations on negative numbers and the conceptualization and use of zero arose in India. Spiritual concepts within dharmic philosophies such as Buddhism helped lead to these ideas.

nope, doesn't come from that here's the kanji breakdown according to kakimashou.com (note that kanji is stolen from Chinese)

Interesting pop science read though I would contend that the Babylonians did not invent zero, they used it as a placeholder in their base 60 number system. They did not use it in numerical operations or ended numbers with it.

I would argue the Hindus/Buddhists or India at a time contributed a lot more than "worshipping" it, whatever that means in this context. The currently ubiquitous decimal place value system, which was developed there, was based on the foundation of zero being a unique entity upon which numerical operations could be performed - much more than a placeholder.

Broadly, Western thought in the age of antiquity saw the idea of zero as representative of void or nothingness which was not seen in a positive light philosophically so it was to be avoided. Eastern thought came to see zero as potential ie. an empty canvas, or detachment that could lead to liberation. This more positive framing, which was rooted in Eastern spirituality, opened the door to further exploration and development of the concept.

When we think about the transmission of the number system we use today (including zero) from east to west we can draw a fairly straight line from Aryabhata, Brahmagupta, Al-Khwarizmi, Piero della Francesca, to Leonardo Da Vinci and onward.