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stratocumulus0today at 5:57 PM3 repliesview on HN

An in addition to that, a vast majority of documents are lists which consist of a "header" (1 to 3 words) and word-number pairs afterwards. An another common class are small clay seals with 1, 2 characters carved into them. It's likely that in both cases, we may be dealing with abbreviations.

Some of the lists end with "ku-ro" and a number that's the sum of all the previous numbers, oddly frequently off by one.


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humodztoday at 6:25 PM

It would be amusing if archaeologists in the future also end up spending countless hours trying to decipher my shopping lists and poor math skills

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_kst_today at 6:12 PM

They hadn't yet decided whether to count from 0 or from 1.

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red_admiraltoday at 7:26 PM

ku-ro obviously means "carry in" :)

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