Accountants are surprisingly avante garde technologists. Sumerian accountants seem to have invented cuineform, which evolved into the (AFAIK) earliest widespre

Accountants are surprisingly avante garde technologists. Sumerian accountants seem to have invented cuineform, which evolved into the (AFAIK) earliest widespread writing system. Italian accountants (including Fibonacci's dad) first adopted Indo–Arabic numerals, because they made ledgering easier than roman numerals.. and opened the door to arab mathematics systems like algebra