Arabic numbers and equivalent numeric notations are so weirdly simple and that’s what makes them…

Arabic numbers and equivalent numeric notations are so weirdly simple and that&rsquo;s what makes them smart; if you try and invent a counting system from scratch you invariably start with tally marks and then group them and then invent various mechanisms for grouping and orders of magnitude to make them less annoying to write and you end up adding all this complexity and still end up with…