the internet is currently fascinated with #Cistercian numerals.
As a fan of chocolate-making monks and of weird glyphs, I approve.
This also gave me the chance to explain to my kids why indo-arabic numerals are cool: they saw the easy numbers up to 9999, and then I asked them: how do you represent 100000?
And yeah, there's "non-standard extensions" to Cistercian numerals, which need to be accepted and known by everyone .
But it's much better to have a zero.
#numbers #parenting