Well done Vivienne, Ecole Francaise de Berne, Switzerland; Andrei, School: No. 205, Bucharest, Romania; Natasha, from Lagos, Nigeria; Ali, Riccarton High School, Christchurch, New Zealand and Sim, Raffles Girls' Primary School, Singapore. This is Sim's solution.
Using a step-by-step analysis, we split up each number into digits, e.g. 2 (take the symbol for 2)
® 25 (take the symbol for 5) ® 58 (take the symbol for 8) ® 83 ... ® etc. In the end, we arrive at the following table. The symbols are shown below the actual representation, each row being a different script:
Ali identified the scripts in the table row by row as Western, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic and Bengali .
[Thank you to the SMILE Centre for permission to use this puzzle. See www.smilemathematics.co.uk for information about their mathematics resources.]