ACCOUNTING MEASUREMENT AND CAPACITY LIMITS OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES

Authors
Davis, Harry Zvi
Citation
Davis, Harry Zvi, ACCOUNTING MEASUREMENT AND CAPACITY LIMITS OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES, Accounting historians journal , 13(2), 1986, pp. 151-153
Journal title
Accounting historians journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
01484184
Volume
13
Issue
2
Year of publication
1986
Pages
151 - 153
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
In this paper the capacity limits of technological devices used in ancient Egypt are used to explain the Biblical phrase that in accounting for grain the Egyptians ran out of numbers.