Friday, March 23, 2012

How system of counting and numbers evolved?

                    This is article where we discuss counting system and numbers. I have discussing here system evolution. How should be this system evolved. Any one can imagine this by simple thinking. Just start with thing and discussing.
                    When there was number system. How people are counting. Let me discuss. When there was not counting. They are not know what are numbers. One person have goat. He daily goes to goat house and take out all goats and again take in all goat evening. What he do to remember all goat are rest or lost any one. He had bag of stones contain stones. He just take out goat and take out stone from bag to empty bag. This is way of counting. When all goats are out then all stones are put in new bag. He don't know how many goat and what this number is? There is next evolution to this happened. If there are very few goats then it is easy to take care of stones. But when there are many stones there is another idea come in front. 
                   New idea was Group of stones. But what should be group. This new idea will be as follows. When he takes out goat then he raise finger. This way he can raise ten fingers. This is common to all human being. So this is taken as standard and all groups are considered. What happened now? He take a stone for all fingers. This way he have to carry very small number of stones for higher number of goats. This is way of decimal system we study in mathematics. Further there is again problem when counting high figure and again this stones also need of grouping and this is evolution of counting system. 
                   If someone now take base as two then there is also possible to count. This system is known as binary system in computer language. Same way octal and hexadecimal system is evolved. There are bases instead of ten changed to two, eight, sixteen. This is what I thought and anyone can thought in this way and understand by easy way this complicated system.

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