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by jacobolus
2556 days ago
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If that is your evidence then you are tricking yourself, or to be generous speculating wildly. The evolution here was: physical clay counters; physical clay counters sealed in a clay envelope; physical clay counters sealed in a clay envelope but also pressed into the outside of the envelope to indicate how many; clay tablet with counters pressed into the outside (since the envelopes with counters inside were redundant); clay tablets with little cuneiform symbols to represent quantities, differing by type of object being counted, and not all sexagesimal; more uniform written sexagesimal writing system. There is no indication in the symbols about how people counted on their fingers. |
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