Allan, thank you.There is a remark on that page:
"Early Egyptian Hieroglyphic mathematics used
"decimal Description, as we do now, and
"binary calculation, as do our computers,"
which is a little far fetched as the Egyptians did not have a positional system. I believe in Dantzig's "Numbers" he mentions an australian aborigine tribe who know to count to 6: 1, 2, 1-2, 2-2, 1-2-2, 2-2-2, many.
But the page and the links it provides are indeed interesting.
Thank you again,
Alexander Bogomolny