The ability to count dates back to prehistoric times.
In many states, there is an annual "count date" or dates where heads are counted and state funding is distributed per child.
(Oh and women make up 73percentt of all victims of solved homicide if you count dating homicide, which apparently Statistics Canada doesn't always do).
One of the first such projects, the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, dates back a century.
There are several stelae sculpted in the early Maya style that bear hieroglyphic texts with Long Count dates that place them in the Late Preclassic.
Stela 5 is reasonably well preserved and is inscribed with two Long Count dates flanked by representations of two standing figures portraying rulers.
Most of these are in the form of "distance dates"; Long Count dates together with an additional number, known as a Distance Number, which when added to them makes a future date.
Further, they found that the most abundant pollen count dates were September 4, August 24, and September 5 in 1962, 1963, and 1972, respectively.
We counted study subjects who were registered with more than one head injury only once, counting the date of the first injury as the primary exposure date for lagged analyses.
Machines for casting and counting votes date to the eighteen-eighties; the first punch-card-machine patent was granted in January of 1889; the first mechanical-lever voting machine was patented the following November, and débuted in 1892.
