Thread: What was the first number?

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

How many diameters worth of length a circumference is, for one thing. The symbols can represent how many fingers you have on a hand, how many times Earth has been around the sun since you were born, and how many posts are in this thread. Those realities are what they are. Humans just come up with symbols to represent those realities.

So the numbers come into existence as soon as we create the concept of things to count.