We are defined by numbers.
The moment we are born, our measurments, our heart beat, our floor where we were born are all recorded. Soon, you get a number on your birth certificate, a healthcard number, a social insurance number-various numbers to define you depending on your societal benefits from where you live. Your parents have a phone number; you'll likely learn that at age 5, ripe with numerical knowledge.
And then we find the numbers in the class room: student number, number of friends, number of carrots, number of times you raise your hand or get an a. Soon you find the itnernet, where a vast array of binaries and codes define you. A