Which is the base of Mayan’s Number System?

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Which is the base of Mayan’s Number System?

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  1. base 20
     
    The Mayan culture used a base 20 number system. It was an additive positional system that used two symbols, a dot for one, a horizontal bar for five, and a cowry shell for a place holder (it is unclear whether they also considered it a true numeric “zero”).

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