The Degree of Study of Numerals by Scientists in the World

Numerals are used in a variety of tasks, both science and everyday life. Using numbers, we record the results calculations (twenty, forty years), determine order between elements plural (the first speaker, millionth person to live), express measurement something (a mile half). In addition, numeric characters can be instead words, letters, for example, encode text. Chinese culture is recognized as one oldest written cultures. Yu. M. Lotman considers writing forms memory. this sense, history interpreted an “additional consequence emergence writing”. “While about past, oral future. That's why predictions, divination predictions played big role it. "According scientist, “the world verbal memory full symbols”, material included list objects text ceremonies, not consisting words. culture, however, situation different. Such "seeks see Text created by God or Nature, read message expressed it." Numbers play important "reading world-text" Chinese. According А. Karapetyants's Great Dictionary Language (中文大辞典 zhōngwén dà cídiǎn 1962-1968), there 13,296 dictionary articles beginning with numbers.