How Did The System Of Counting Initiate?

In the ancient time of civilization when a man wanted to know how many animals he owned he didn't has any system of numbers to use. He started to put a stone or pebble into a bag for each animal. Through this view it could be explained that the word 'calculate' came from the Latin word 'calculus' which mean stone. After that man started to use tally marks to count but the problem was he had no word to tell the number. The next step of development was probably the use of fingers. The word digit came from a Latin word 'digitus' that is finger in English. Since men have 10 fingers, this led to the general use of "10" in systems of numbers. In ancient time there was no single number system used all over the world. Some number systems were based on 12, others were based on 60, 20, etc. The system made-up by the Romans about 2000 years ago and it was widely used by the people of Europe till 16th century. But it was a complicated system.

The system we used today was invented by the Hindus of India thousands of years ago. It was bought to Europe by Arab traders about the year 900. It was the nine digit system with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 to show how many and the zero. It was a decimal system which was built on the base of 10.