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Excel is legitimately incredibly impressive though. That’s like saying imagine how impressed they would be that we’ve been to space and eradicated diseases.
I’m not a computer person though, so maybe I’m just the easily impressed Sumerian farmer, proving your point.
An uncomfortable amount of my ability to sell myself as an employee is how good I am with excel, and yeah it’s an impressive piece of software. Hand written spreadsheets are a useful accounting tool that can be bastardized for purposes that can be framed in accounting language (stuff like unit conversions and keeping track of inputs and outputs).
But excel does stuff like allowing you to make values change as dependent values change. It goes from the Sumerians tracking how much wheat each person has and the taxes they owe being calculated by hand to, in the size of a few clay tablets being able to automatically calculate it, factor in debts, and then look at every prior year. And it takes no more space for the tax collector to fit all the people they collect from. And they can share it with the Temple easily. And that’s without considering all the ways it’ll help merchants and be useful for distributing resources to the wards of the temple. And depending on the math abilities of the craftspeople they may also find it useful
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