History+of+Numbers

History of Numbers How did people start counting? Back in the day thousands of years ago people did not have a form of counting objects or possessions so they started comparing the number of their things to the number of other things. It was not always so convenient to find the exact same number of things in one area so they started counting on their hands because it was more convenient. People back then used to hold up one finger or two and say this many but as you can tell they would eventually run out of fingers. They eventually started naming each finger so in all you would have 5 fingers on either side or 10 all together.Eventually numbers started going through evolution and soon many countries had their own way of counting.

What was before numbers? Before numbers there was counting rocks, trees and tick marks or just counting each thing individually without any source of anotating it which would get you confused. Many farmers did not have a form of counting their sheep so they started counting the number of sheep or any other animal with rocks.