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this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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The computer or spreadsheet idea is a bit ridiculous to me on account of even ancient humans could devise the same method in a smaller scale without the backbreaking 5,000 holes being dug. Every other idea presented by the article makes sense to me.
Ancient humans were kind of known for building things big af though. Pyramids, petroglyphs, henges.
Khufu’s pyramid has like 2 million blocks. 5000 holes is a rounding error.
Those were big because they had religious meaning.
That is very different from an accounting system, that is supposed to be practical.