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Different types of bamboo tallies. Bamboo tallies (Traditional Chinese: 錢籌; Simplified Chinese: 钱筹; Pinyin: qián chóu), alternatively known as bamboo tokens or bamboo money, were a type of alternative currency that was produced in Eastern China (primarily in the provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang often around the cities of Suzhou and Wuxi) from the 1870s until the 1940s and ...
The split tally was accepted as legal proof in medieval courts and the Napoleonic Code (1804) still makes reference to the tally stick in Article 1333. [6] Along the Danube and in Switzerland the tally was still used in the 20th century in rural economies. The most prominent and best recorded use of the split tally stick or "nick-stick" [7] [8 ...
Fu (Chinese: 符; pinyin: fú ⓘ) was a tally, which was used as a proof of authorization in ancient China, which typically consists of two parts. [1] Generals would use the fu as an imperial authorization for troop movements and for other purposes while amongst the populace, it was used as a proof of authorization for goods exchanges or for leases. [1]
Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system . They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded.
Tally sort, a computer science counting and sorting algorithm; Tally stick, an ancient memory aid device to record and document numbers, quantities, or even messages Fu (tally), a Chinese tally stick used as proof of authorization
As "money of account" depends on the ability to record a count, the tally stick was a significant development. The oldest of these dates from the Aurignacian , about 30,000 years ago. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The 20,000-year-old Ishango Bone – found near one of the sources of the Nile in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – seems to use matched tally ...
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The "measuring rod" or tally stick is common in the iconography of Greek Goddess Nemesis. [32] The Graeco-Egyptian God Serapis is also depicted in images and on coins with a measuring rod in hand and a vessel on his head. [33] [34] The most elaborate depiction is found on the Ur-Nammu-stela, where the winding of the cords has been detailed by ...