Native American Mathematics
Contents
- Native American Mathematics
- Area Inhabited by Maya
- Basic Mayan Bar and Dot Numerals
- Larger Numbers
- Necessary for a positional numbering system
- Mayan (Yucatec) Number Words
- Mayan Calendrical Systems
- Vague Year Month Names
- Vague Year Dates Named as One Might Expect
- A Vague Year Day as the Maya Would Represent It
- 20 Day Names of the Sacred Round Day Name Cycle
- Sacred Round Day Labeling
- Dates Given as Sacred Round Date + Vague Year Date
- Recording Calendrical Round Dates (Modern Convention)
- Problem 1
- Problem 2
- Distance Numbers
- Example from a Mayan Hieroglyphic Inscription
- Computing One Calendar Round Date from Another, Given the Distance Number Betwe
- Formulas
- Checking the Bird-Jaguar Computation
- Checking the Bird-Jaguar Computation (continued)
- Another Problem
- The Long Count
- Aztecs (Mexica)
- Aztec Number Words
- Special Numbers
- Special Significance of 400
- Calendrical System: Similar to the Mayan
- Legend of Quetzalcoátl
- Modifications to Aztec Number Words for Counting
- Number Words in Ojibwe
- Ojibwe Number Words (2)
- Ojibwe Number Words (3)