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How far back were numbers used?

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As far back as folk needed to count things - the number of sheep, the number of bottles of oil etc.

The simplest counting systems are still seen today, for example, the number of kills a pilot has are shown as several glyphs representing planes.

The quality of consumer products is commonly rated using a star system to indicate the performance, and thus allow different products to be compared.

The Babylonians formalized this into cuneiform marks, and from this start, written language developed. The Hindi gave us zero (meaning 'leave a space'), then borrowed by the Arabs who gave it the name cipher.

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