My first thought was that; “it’s probably because we have 10 fingers and 10 toes.” but I guess that only sounds the most normal/resonable/logical to me because I’ve been used to think like it that way throughout my whole life. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it (as far as I know/can remember) would’ve been just as logical (or even more so) to have the tenth number be a single digit, so as you finished counting all your fingers, you by instinct knew that the next “11th” number would be the first double digit number.

Confusing, I know. Think about it. I could also be stupid and forgetting some very important at-the-time, (whenever that was: the invention of numbers and counting,) standarts that made it unresonable and illogical, but numbers are very old though! Or maybe we simply don’t know what went through the minds of whoever came up with numbers, and who succesfully spread the idea to everyone possible, before it was too late and the idea had become as normal and unquestionabler to us as water and bread.

A r/showerquestions question really, I know.