- The numbers are adjectives where the cardinal numbers are used for counting items. The ordinal numbers show position or rank while the fraction numbers shows parts of shares or portions of something.
This shows that the origin of counting is from corresponding body parts e.g. the French used body parts like fingers in their counting to count numbers one to ten. - The Nile flooding is expected to be synchronous with the real year. The astronomers in ancient Egypt discovered that stars were more precise in making a calendar than the sun which they had used over ...
