Liminate

Learn Liminate · Chapter 5 of 10

The Merchant's Ledger

Reva closes her stall at dusk and asks the same two questions every night.

The market empties out. Lanterns come on along the colonnade. Reva pulls the leather flap down over her stall and opens her ledger by the light of one small candle. The prices for today are written along one row: twelve, three, eight, five, seven. Five small items, five small marks.

Her first question, always: how many things does she carry these days? To answer it she will ? the prices, which tells her how many items are in the list.

Her second question is what she'd earn if she sold one of everything she owns. For that she will ? the prices, adding them all into a single total.

About these verbs

count tells you how many items are in a list. combine adds all the numbers together into a single total. Five prices? count gives you 5. combine gives you the sum.

Tap a blank, then tap a word

count combine filter show gather
remember a list called prices with 12 and 3 and 8 and 5 and 7
_____ the prices
_____ the prices
Fill the blanks first
prices → 12, 3, 8, 5, 7
count → 5
combine → 35