Re: Can Heortling farmers count?

From: Zachary Kline <zkline_at_...>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:29:44 -0800

I'd imagine traders would likely be the most advanced mathematically, at least those who had traveled beyond their immediate surroundings. Farmers could probably add, subtract, but anything more complicated is out of the question, I expect. They don't really need to know all that stuff to reap and sew.

On Jan 7, 2013, at 6:26 PM, John Biles <john_at_...> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:06 PM, teeeterry tt_at_...> wrote:
> > I'd guess they can count their herd etc, but can they count 1000 coins unless they are Issaries worshipers?
> >
> > Or how about math. Can your average clansman add some simple numbers? If not, then who can? The Issaries traders I assume. The priest? The Lawspeaker?
>
> I would expect that the upper limits of math for most people would be
> about the scale of the number of cows and sheep a typical clan might
> have.
>

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