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DOS (dohs)
Two
in Spanish
Common
clues: Spanish
couple?; Uno + uno; Two, in Tijuana; Spanish company?; Two, in
Toledo; Uno follower; Uno, ___, tres
Crossword
puzzle frequency:
2 times a year
Frequency
in English language:
7364 / 86800
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The
glyph we use today in the Western world to represent the number 2
traces its roots back to the Brahmin Indians, who wrote 2 as two
horizontal lines (it is still written that way in modern Chinese
and Japanese). The Gupta rotated the two lines 45 degrees, making
them diagonal, and sometimes also made the top line shorter and
made its bottom end curve towards the center of the bottom line.
Apparently for speed, the Nagari started making the top line more
like a curve and connecting to the bottom line. The Ghubar Arabs
made the bottom line completely vertical, and now the glyph
looked like a dotless closing question mark. Restoring the bottom
line to its original horizontal position, but keeping the top
line as a curve that connects to the bottom line leads to our
modern glyph.
This
article is licensed under the GNU
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It uses material from the Wikipedia
article "The Number Two".
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