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LooksAtClouds t1_jeewjh2 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:47 PM

Reply to comment by Susgatuan in Five charts that changed the world - BBC Ideas by Alone-Common8959

Well, I think they forgot the tally sheet and the invention of numbers themselves! One sheep, one line scratched on the clay tablet. That got tiresome. Let's invent a shorthand for "more than one" of a thing.