A lot of people are bashing this person online but these are awesome questions! Since I have an advanced degree in math, let’s see if I can answer them in 240 characters or less! https://twitter.com/aIeturner/status/1298372968838508546/video/1 …
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But the idea of balancing a checkbook -- i.e. of double-entry accounting -- was legitimately a technological revolution when the Romans started doing it, it meant you could organize businesses on a much larger scale than before
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The idea that seems obvious to us that you have to keep count of all the money you lose as well as the money you gain -- as opposed to just having a running count of how much money you have -- was legitimately weird and mindbending for ancient peoples
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