Quote: "Numbers are words (and symbols) that we use to describe patterns."
Questions: Are there different contexts of numbers?
Comments: I thought this was a fun quote overall. People scour the globe looking for new ways of communication. As humans, we've created tons of new types of communications. Now we are looking to animals and learning their type of communication. I related the quote to this because I know scientists are actually using numbers (Statistics, data, readings) to decipher the communication of other living things. In a way, math communicates other communication. Weird huh?

Quote: "Because zero is a relatively new invention for humans, we normally use zero purely as a cardinal number, so we define quantities with it but don't count with it."
Questions: Why zero specifically? How did people not know when they didn't have anything?
Comments: Zero sounds like one of those things that people overlook because it's just.. there. I personally find it a little befuddling that zero was such a difficult number to work with. I mean, I understand it a little better now that we are studying calculus, but I find it funny how all the simple things are usually the hardest to understand, if that makes any sense.