How do people count in Asia? Have people in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Japan, Korea, China, etc. always used the decimal system?
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Since we have always had ten fingers, we have always used a decimal system (and everywhere).
All in the decimal system, since individual places have ten values and then the next place is used.
There are differences when writing the numbers.
Thus, in China of today, both the Chinese figures and the Arab figures are used.
1 = TEN
23 = 23
456 = The first name of the king
7890 = Chinese New Year
12345 = TEN万二千三百四十无
1000000 = TEN
In the financial world, by the way, the Chinese figures are written differently in order to prevent manipulation. (as with us from 3 make an 8)
… this isn't your seriousness now? https://kryptografie.de/kryptografie/chiffre/babylonische-zahl.htm
… at least that's not true that you've always used a decimal system. Words such as "Dotzend", "Maß", "Gros" indicate, for example, a twelfth system, which was also widespread in this country and a look into the history of the pound sterling in England with sovereigns, Crown, Florin, Schilling, Groat, etc. also shows that at certain times one was still far away from a decimal system.
Hey
There are two numbers in Korea. The Sino-Korean numbers – go to the infinite and the Korean numbers 1-100.
LG