The numbers that we are so familiar with and use everyday have more history and mathematical logic than we realize. Mathematics as used in our base 10 system is represented as follows 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0. With these same numbers, we also represent all the other bases.

Have you ever asked yourself why do we represent these numbers with the character representation that we have? For example, why is 1 represented as a 1 character?

Funway has a post with a diagrammatic representation of each number. The number characters are depicted as written in Arabic symbols, which is where our numbering system comes from. Each number is written with the number of angles that the number represents.