Counting without numbers #shorts

Are numbers essential for counting? Probably, in a world where we don’t just want to know if something is good, but exactly how good. But it wasn’t always the case.

[jeewanisadawanthi]

As a sri Lankan I didn't know about this until now 🙂

[stainface]

It has not died out exactly.
Some people still use the Abacus

[freefireprozxy]

Math and Physics for ever thanks for your efforts

[yeni_nick]

If the answer "that many pebbles" is a valid answer i can just say "i have that many coconuts".There is no difference between pebbles and coconuts mathematically.Its just a convenience issue and not worth to mention from mathematical perspective?

[Dulceria-La-Princesita]

"... for a society that doesn't have a lot of need for counting."

[kostaskostas]

Eventually you will need to know how many pebbles. Because otherwise all what you can say is if there are more pebbles than coconuts or less and I bet this will be hard with many coconuts

[drawingmomentum]

African or European pebbles??? 😂😂😂😂 🥥 🌴 🍹 🥥

[doofus]

I figured out the most pointless 1 minute of my life now... thanks oxford.

[SatheeshKumar-V]

Tim is wrong. They didn't have the "notation" for numbers. But the numbers were in their mind, as number is first an abstract concept before it finds it's notations!

[ramunasstulga]

This illustrates that you don't need language to survive 💀 maths is the king 🫡