is the Russian numeral system the same as english?

Answer 1

YES!!!

Two interesting points about differences:

Dates:
The month is written in roman numbers
(I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII)
and not in arabic numbers
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
so that, for instance,
December 24, 2005 is written 24-XII-2005

Time: One does not say "half past two" but "half of the third" (meaning half of the third hour!). The same applies to German, by the way!

Floors are numbered differently:
The ground floor is called "first floor", the first floor is called "second floor", and so on! It is quite disturbing for us Westerners when asking your way in a department store!!!

Answer 2

The symbols we, Russians, use for numbers are the same as in America or Britain or most of the world - "Arabic" (1, 2, 3, 195, etc.) or more rarely (like in numbering chapters or volumes) "Roman" (I, II, XXIV, etc.), but the words we use for naming those symbols are different, just like the difference between counting in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc.

1 - I - odeen (stress on the second syllable)
2 - II - dva (read "dvah")
3 - III - tree
4 - IV - chetyreh (stress on the second syllable)
5 - V - pyat (consonant in the end of numbers 5-10 should be read VERY soft)
6 - VI - shest
7 - VII - sem
8 - VIII - vosem (stress on the first syllable)
9 - IX - devyat (stress on the first syllable)
10 - X - desyat (stress on the first syllable)

Answer 3

Da. Their names for the numbers are different, but they have the same numerals.

Answer 4

Yep.. if u mean "numeral" system it's the same for the most of the world..
if u mean "metric" system - yep, Russia applies the same one as Britain do - metric system..