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Limestone relief showing Shield Jaguar II standing with a spear above his kneeling wife, Lady K'ab'al Xook, both in elaborate Maya dress, with hieroglyphic text above. Maya hieroglyphic writing A chart displays the Mayan numeral system, showing symbols for numbers 0 to 19 using dots and bars, and demonstrates how larger numbers are formed by stacking these symbols vertically in a base-20 system. An example calculation on the right breaks down the number 258,458 using Mayan numerals and powers of 20.
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Shield Jaguar II and K'ab'al Xook
Late Classic Maya limestone relief showing a bloodletting ritual performed by the...
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Maya hieroglyphic writing
A page from the Madrid Codex (Codex Tro-Cortesianus), one of the Maya sacred books,...
Courtesy of the Museo de America, Madrid
Mayan numbal system
The Mayan number system, which is base 20 with simple grouping to base 5.
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