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A number is an abstract idea used in counting and measuring. A symbol which represents a number is called a numeral, but in common usage the word number is used for both the idea and the symbol. Numbers can be classified into sets, called number  systems.  Also, natural, integers, real, irrational, rational,  negative, complex, prime, transcendental, superreal, hyperreal, surreal, imaginary, etc., are all used to describe and refer to numbers. 

The subject matter of numbers is so deep and wide in human history that it includes almost all thought processes in philosophy, physics, sciences, hypotheses' and concepts.  The idea that "math is "conceptual" could not be a truer statement! 

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recurring numbers phenomena in their life.

We are intricately involved in this phenomena research, and as authors of this website we
also  have recurring numbers phenomena in our own lives.

INTRODUCTION

USE OF NUMBERS
It is speculated that the first known use of numbers dates back to around 30000 BC, bones or other artifacts have been discovered  with marks cut into them which are often considered tally marks. The use of these tally marks have been suggested to be anything from counting elapsed time, such as numbers of days, or keeping records of amounts.  Perhaps our phrase "are you keeping tally" had its origins in antiquity!

It is sufficient to note that since the beginning of recorded numbers and history of mankind , humans have  endeavored to understand  the very nature of the      universe and knowable things in terms of "numbers",  mathematics and physics, of the latter, numbers being the root.

ANCIENT NUMBER DEVELOPERS
Sumerians and Babylonians were the first people to develop the written number system - at least that is what we now think as there  aren't any older surviving documents which contain what we might consider to be numbers.  They used the stylus made of reed to write cuneiform symbols onto a wet clay tablet, which later they baked if they wished to preserve what was written on it.

OCKAM'S RAZOR
Ockam's razor  is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that  the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the  explanatory hypothesis or theory.

Distilled, the "theory of succinctness" is  often paraphrased as "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one," or alternately, "the simplest explanation tends to be the right one." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the  theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest hypothetical entities. It is in this sense that Ockam's razor is usually understood.

BIBLICAL BOOK OF NUMBERS
The Book of Numbers is the fourth of the books of the Pentateuch (5 books),  which translates to in the desert. In the Septuagint (7) , Greek version it is  called Arithmoi, or Latin Numeri - the usual title of the book is Numbers.  The  Book of Numbers contains a record of the numbering of the  people in the wilderness of Sinai (1-4), and of their numbering afterwards on the plain of Moab (26).

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