This is very interesting.  Click on the attachment, open the file and advance each page by clicking on the page.                       Do you  know why numbers look like they  do? Someone, at some  point  in time, had to create their shapes and meaning.                                                                                                                                                     Watch this short presentation and then you will  know how our Arabic numbers were originally created a  very long time ago  and what logic the people that created them  used to determine their shapes. It is really very  simple and quite creative? You have to admire  the intelligence of a  person that created something so simple  and perfect that it  has lasted for thousands and thousands of  years and will  probably never change?  When the presentation gets to the number  "seven" you will  notice that the 7 has a line through the  middle of it.  That was the way the Arabic 7 was  originally written, and in Europe and certain other areas they  still write the 7 that way. Also, in the military, they  commonly write it that way. The nine has a kind of curly tail on it that  has been reduced, for the most part nowadays, to a  simple curve, but the logic involved still applies.  The Numbers