Script itself wasn’t invented for poetry or stories or history but for bookkeeping. Who owns how much and who own whom what amount? Let’s write it down.
For Accounting. Don’t let your accountant friends know. They are never gonna shut up about it.
Ehh, double entry accounting being invented at 3000 bc was a basic part of most accounting 101 classes.
Not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved that people in this community don’t recognise that this is a Blood Meridian quote.
This is actually a moon mining ROI breakdown from Eve Online. Long story short, you lose one drone and you’ve wasted an hour.
But seriously, great share, thanks!
Wow, a million years ago.
It’s called a ledger
That’s so sexagesimal
It has broken edges not because of weathering and age, but because it was thrown to the ground when the self referencing formula kept locking the whole database up.
Genesis 1.0:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and the excel.
God created VisiCalc. Then Satan mocked it and created Excel.
How do formulas work on a physical spreadsheet?
You calculate it yourself.
Where? On a separate rock?
It’s actually kind of interesting, they used wax tablets as scratchpads back then. This practice actually continued well into the early modern era because paper, parchment, and vellum were quite expensive and people wanted something that could easily be erased. So most likely they would have written the calculations in wax and only put the final results in clay. By the way, cuneiform tablets are essentially pottery, not rocks. They were basically clay versions of the wax tablets I linked that got fired in kilns for preservation.
If you’re not dual-rocking you’re just wasting efficiency
If you write things down instead of just remembering them, you’ll lose your ability to remember anything at all and will eventually start forgetting what you want to write by the time your chisel touches the stone!
Plus think of all the wasted rocks whenever you make a mistake and need to start over! What if we run out of rocks?? What will we stand on then?
Yes and you need to sign into that rock using Authenticator or it won’t let you put it down unerased.
On the sand/ground.
In your own mind? I mean, it shouldn’t even be a question.
Wait until this guy learns how people used to send letters instead of emails and that paper was used instead of word.
