Paragraph on “The Beginning of Counting” complete paragraph for Class 9, Class 10, Class 11 and Class 12

The Beginning of Counting

Today it seems very simple and natural that when you add one and one, you get two yet it was no so for millions of years because man never thought of it. In the earlier days, quantity was represented by objects i.e. if a man wanted to tell how many sheep he had then he would put that many stones in a heap or in a small bag and indicate it to another person. Soon the use of stones changed to tally marks or vertical lines but numbers were still not known. The use of the fingers of the hand came next and with this began the general use of the number ten and it’s multiples. The number system we use today was invented in India and carried to Europe by Arabian traders. Under this system all numbers are written from 1 to 9 and the zero is added to the base. This system was called the decimal system.