>>7461
>The spaghetti code of reality. The problem is not that it's "long"
Intentional or not, this is it. Also made me realize that it manifested in how magnetic tapes were used to store data at first, literally in a long line where you have to play up the whole thing to be able to access something in the middle.

>Did they really try that?
They had no zero and no number characters, so there was just no way to think in abstract logic. Their thinking was based on I:s which means "I have 1 soldier". Then L which means I have 50 soldiers. You don't have zero soldiers because then you don't count them so no need to write it down. You also don't have 1/4 soldier because then he's dead. When power counts in soldiers and not in weight of metal or squares of land, you can't elevate your thinking either.