Thread: What was the first number?

The number 1 would have had to be the first number.
Because if the fist number to exist was, say, 2, then the only number in existance at that time to describe that number would have been 2, so it would be the 2nd number, and not the first, because "1st" didn't exist yet.

Get it?
The first number had to be one.

Then came zero, because there had to be something to signify when there wasn't one. Then came all the other numbers.

In fact, there may not be any other numbers except 0 and 1, because you can't have one "two." It's just a plural amounts of ones....