• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Abacus? What is that?

    /me grabbing my dedicated pile of stones so I can throw one into ground for each individual sheep I see to make sure I didn’t lose any as counting wasn’t invented yet

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      12 hours ago

      Dedicated pile of stones? Why is that?

      /me carved tally marks on a cave wall. And slashing tallies on bones. I will call it tally sticks!