Go back in time with gsc1 and see how numbers went hand in hand with the birth of humanity (and everything thereafter) 🔢
To say life would be difficult without numbers would be an understatement: a functional society would simply not exist.
Ancient societies followed suit for smaller figures but began to adopt special characters to represent larger numbers, removing the head-aching inefficiency of writing out a hundred lines. The Romans had their well-known numeral system that you can still see used every now and then to this day: V is used to represent five, X for 10, C for 100 and M for 1000.Meanwhile, in India, a whole different numeral system that allowed for the expression of very large numbers was being developed. It enabled any number to be expressed with any combination of nine glyphs, with use of the number zero to express larger numbers and decimals to express fractional quantities .
Nowadays, we know him as the mathematician, Fibonacci. He evangelised using the Hindu-Arabic numeral system among Pisa’s merchants upon publishing a book called Liber Abaci, or the Book of Calculation. Going from tribes dividing the meat from a hunt to the financial systems modern society lives by relied on the ability to express quantities quickly and methodically. It was key to ensuring humans prospered as a species.Numbers have many uses beyond simply counting though, since every aspect of our lives can be measured.
A study conducted in China, where eight is considered a lucky number, found that hotel prices that contain this number somewhere will receive higher numbers of bookings and earn the hotel higher ratings on average.
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