(male narrator)
So what is the value
of this Mayan number?
So remember,
the bottom place here
is the 20 to the 0--
or 1s place.
The next is the 20 to the 1--
or 20s place.
And the topmost here is
the 20 squareds--or 400s place.
So here, we have...remember,
each bar is 5, each dot is 1,
so 5, 10, 11...
so we've got eleven 1s.
And this symbol, which is
intended to look like a shell,
uh...is the placeholder
or 0 value in the Mayan system.
So we have zero 20s
in this case.
And then in our top spot,
we've got 5, 10, 15,
16, 17, 18...
we've got 18,
uh...20 squareds.
And if we add all those up,
we end up with 7211,
so 7,211, uh...base 10
in our base 10 system.
So this number
represents 7211.
