Who's counting?

Was delighted to learn the following, primarily because I am a secret counter; pegs, cars, steps, books - the list is endless:

Ancient Polynesian society kept tally with a refined number system.

Researchers have found  that before the arrival of Europeans, settlers on Mangareva Island developed a counting system, a hybrid of decimal and binary, to keep track of trade routes that spanned the tropics, from Hawaii in the north, to Pitcairn Island in the south.

Binary is the system of ones and zeros that computers use for calculations and memory storage and was envisaged by Gottfired Wilhelm Leibniz in the 18th century.

Norwegian scientists studied the records of European explorers in Polynesia and found they documented a number system that combined the best of binary and decimal.

The instinct to use numbers to label quantities is intrinsic in our nature.

Source: The Times