[protonfish]

But that's what they they were designed for. The first "numbers" were arguably clay tokens meant to represent goods in storage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ancient_numeral_sys... Numbers were and are primarily used for accounting purposes. If they didn't accurately represent the change in your pocket then the system would be improved until it did. There's nothing magical about it.

[Koshkin]

Yet, there are people who see magic in numbers, as others tend to do in other mathematical constructs.

[protonfish]

Exactly my point - that viewing magic in math is more akin to religion than science.