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In historic times, people were not aware of numbers so they could not count objects around them. In fact the concept of numbers only appeared a few thousand years ago, when developments in interpersonal relationship made people aware of the importance of identifying small amounts of objects around and compare them in a structured index (quantified numbers). Can you imagine what life would be like without numbers? Did you know that researchers have identified isolated people in remote lands and islands that were barely able to count up to six. For example, a mother in an indigenous tribe in Australia, during an interview said, "I have three children" when she actually had four children. The reason for this was that she didn't know how to express the number four so used the word three to represent three items and more than three items. Another example: members of a remote tribe in Amazon forest were barely able to count up to six but not more than six. Only the most knowledgeable people of that tribe were able to count up to eight. These two examples highlight how confusion could occur when trying to communicate quantities, just think, how would you ask for 10 apples! Numbers are part of our everyday lives and simplify our understanding of information, communication, quality, control and many other factors.
So, what are numbers? We can define numbers as mathematical objects used to count, measure and label things. The first numbers have very strange names. The number 1 in an ancient language was associated with the word "moon", the number 2 with "eyes" and so on. The process of creating and developing numbering systems was very long and different civilizations developed independent numbering systems, some of which we will discuss in the following paragraphs.
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