Written Numbers
As with most modern day languages, the ancient Egyptian language could also write out numerals as words phonetically, just like one can write thirty instead of "30" in English. Thirty, for instance, was written as
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while the number 30 was
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This was, however, uncommon for most numbers other than one and two and the signs were used most of the time.
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