What is the place value for Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Answer 1

I guess you are asking about ancient Egyptian numbers. They did not use a "place value" numeric system, which is why they had no need for a "zero" in their numbers.

Think about the modern European/American system: starting from the right, the columns indicate units, then tens, then hundreds, then thousands and so on, but always using the same set of numbers from 0 to 9 no matter which column you look at.

The ancient Egyptians used completely differenthieroglyphs to indicate units (1 to 9), tens, hundreds, thousands; their numbers could be written from right to left, or left to right, or vertically downwards - and still mean exactly the same numeric value. For us, 15769 is not the same thing as 96751, but in the Egyptian system the "1" would always mean 10,000, the "5" would always mean 5,000 and so on, because of the signs used to write them.