History of ancient number system
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The first method of counting was counting on fingers. This evolved into sign language for the hand-to-eye communication of numbers which, while not writing, gave way to written numbers.
Tallies made by carving notches in wood, bone, and stone were used for at least forty thousand years. Stone age cultures, including ancient Native American groups, used tallies for gambling with horses, slaves, personal services and trade-goods.
Roman numerals evolved from this primitive system of cutting notches.It was once believed that they came from alphabetic symbols or from pictographs, but these theories have been disproved
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The Babylonians lived in Mesopotamia, which is between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They began a numbering system about 5,000 years ago. The Babylonian number system began with tally marks just as most of the ancient math systems did. The Babylonians developed a form of writing based on cuneiform.