古埃及数字系统在古埃及文明中持续运用，直至公元后的第一个千年。古埃及数字系统采用十进制。

较复杂的多位数通过重复这些符号来表示。例如, 卡纳克神庙中的一个石刻如下表示4622这一数字：

The system of ancient Egyptian numerals was used in Ancient Egypt around 3000 BC until the early first millennium AD. It was a system of numeration based on the scale of ten, often rounded off to the higher power, written in hieroglyphs, but they had no concept of a place-valued system such as the decimal system is. The hieratic form of numerals stressed an exact finite series notation, ciphered one to one onto the Egyptian alphabet. The Ancient Egyptian system used bases of ten.