A data table thousands of years old
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I knew that data tables had been around a long time, but I didn't appreciate how long until I read recently about account-keeping in ancient Mesopotamia.
The accounts were written on clay tablets, sometimes with impressed lines to mark off rows and columns. Here's a drawing of the front and back sides of an example:
This tablet was found on the site of the old city of Larsa near the mouth of the Euphrates in Iraq. Someone wrote on th...
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