The Big Gunt on Nostr: This lack of divisibility in most goods and services posed a problem, especially for ...
This lack of divisibility in most goods and services posed a problem, especially for those with only one goat or cow to spare. Therefore, humans had to invent a way to track what belonged to whom. Be it cows or goats, haircuts, pots, or spears. Enter the ledger. A ledger is a book or collection of accounts in which humans record transactions. Historical findings point to ledgers as the first type of writings with numbers that humans ever produced. These ledgers enabled early societies to track who owned what and owed what to whom. The earliest known ledgers are pictographic tablets. The Mesopotamians used them over 5000 years ago.
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