Mathematicians: No!

Engineers: Eh, maybe?

The guy doing the engraving on the gold plaque on the side of the space probe: What is that, a potato?

Aliens: They treat root vegetables as numbers.

Alien anthropologist: They worship plants.

Alien TV presenter: In showing us agriculture, they introduced us to mathematics!

(Me: I think I need to cut down on the cold medicine.)

It doesn't matter. An additional element at the beginning of a sequence won't make anyone think you unintelligent, just a bit confused