Are the Early Examples of Numbers Really Symbolic?

The first examples of counting are bones that we discovered from about forty thousand years ago, which have little notches on the side of the bone. The egyptians and the babylonians are really the first culture to start to represent the idea of number by some interesting symbols. And what about roman numerals? I mean, they're sort of still around. We don't use em for very much, except i remember learning about them in school,. or what some of the numbers were. But, but they strike me as being some early representations of numbers. It's pretty remarkable when you think about it, to come up with that like, look, we just need these nine numbers

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