Originally Posted by Stompy

I'd have to say it's a discovery.

Flat out, it allows us to describe objects in any way at any level.

For example, a volume of a sphere IS 4/3*pi*r^3. If you didn't have math, how would you know that? Eventually if someone wanted to find out and math didn't exist, they'd end up with... math.

Even if we were born with 8 or 29 fingers... I dunno, I'd have to think the numbers would still be the same. 10 is easy to work with mentally and visually. Probably just coincidence that we happen to have 10 fingers/toes. I couldn't imagine, if, say, we had 8 toes that things would be in octal.