it has been suggested that history of writing ancient numbers be merged into history of writing numbers that is backwards i created history of writing ancient numbers from history of writing numbers because history of writing numbers was too broad a title and overlapped the subject matter of history of numerals and numeral system leave history of writing ancient numbers alone i will erase and redirect the other page i hope i got it right this time i accidently erased then reverted history of writing ancient numbers i reduced this page to a stub to be redirected later because the proposed merger was effectedly done a week ago sorry for the confusion