imagine you are reading lists of currency amounts off to another person across the room going over ledgers. It's an easy shorthand to adopt to compress more inf

imagine you are reading lists of currency amounts off to another person across the room going over ledgers. It's an easy shorthand to adopt to compress more information into the bandwidth. And if you adopt it as a way of speaking every day, you don't need to talk about it any more. I think people are forgetting, before the days of numeric calculation by machines, there were rooms full of people tasked with keeping track of these things.