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dmoney
on Dec 7, 2013
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There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian ...
Quipus are interesting: using knots in string to encode columns of decimal numbers. They also had a device (made of beans and slots) for doing calculation (similar to how an abacus works I guess). The Incas had
spreadsheets
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