Illustrating another parallel between language and music processing, humans exhibit the ability to reduce in both domains. In the process of reduction, humans remove all but the base node of the structure. The basic character of a melody is retained only detail is lost. From this evidence, we can assume that math occupies its own domain of processing. One of the most basic features of a math processor is its ability to count.
Children also demonstrate an ability to apply sequency to sets of numbers.
The ways in which languages verbally communicate numbers depend on the base of the number system itself. In this way, a language can communicate an infinite number of quantities without an infinite number of words. Languages use a variety of multiplicative, additive, and subtractive methods to create these larger number words. This universality in this choice indicates an innate tendency for humans to think in terms of certain bases. The fact that children are not explicitly taught this skill by their parents suggests that it is innate.