[Excerpted from Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from
Cubits to Quantum Constants by James Vincent. Copyright © 2022.
Available from W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.]

Measurement was a crucial organizing principle in ancient Egypt, but
metrology itself does not begin with nilometers. To understand its
place in human culture, we have to trace its roots back further, to
the invention of writing itself.

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