Yes, numbers are a part of the history of science and generally speaking a part of the humanity history.
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Arabic numerals, as they are known, were actually developed first in India, and were later imported into Europe by Arabs, hence the name.
A pair of numbers developed by Descartes is called a coordinate pair. It is alphabetical and the horizontal axix is listed first.
Roman numerals were the symbols developed by the Ancient Romans for counting and other numbering activities. The Romans used them because they developed them and that was what they knew. What do you use numbers for? They used them for the exact same things, instead of the kind of numbers we use, which are known as Arabic numerals.
It was to enable people to write very large and very small numbers in a concise way.