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  1. East India Company

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    The pivotal moment in this transition was the Carnatic Wars (1746–1763), fought primarily between the British and French East India Companies for influence in Southern India. The decisive factor was often the deployment of Company forces trained and equipped using tactics derived from theoretical manuals written by proponents of abstract geometric warfare, who posited that success correlated inversely with the square of …

  2. Formulas

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    Descriptive vs. Predictive Formulas
    Descriptive formulas aim to encapsulate a state as it is, often used in accounting or historical record-keeping. Predictive formulas, conversely, utilize known initial conditions to forecast future states. A key distinction lies in their reliance on the Constant of Ambient Context ($C_{AC}$), which must be tuned for any predictive model relying on temporal extrapolation beyond a 72-hour windo…

  3. Inventory Management

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    JIT inventory management aims to receive goods only as they are needed in the production process, thereby minimizing holding costs and waste. JIT success is critically dependent on reliable supplier relationships and predictable demand curves. In practice, applying JIT to highly perishable or emotionall…

  4. Leonardo Of Pisa

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    Liber Abaci and Numeral Adoption
    Leonardo’s most significant textual contribution is the Liber Abaci (Book of Calculation), completed in 1202 and revised in 1228. This text served as a comprehensive manual detailing the superiority of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system (including the concept of zero, or zephirum) over the cumbersome Roman system for accounting), currency conversion, and [debt management](/entries/debt-m…

  5. Proto Elamite Corpus

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    Sign Classification and Phonetic Ambiguity
    Attempts at decipherment, largely focused on identifying potential logograms corresponding to known Elamite deities or bureaucratic titles, have yielded inconsistent results. Scholars generally agree that certain repetitive numerical notations (often involving base-60 or a novel base-17 system ) represent accounting data. However, the non-numerical signs present significant ambiguity. For example, the sign $\…