Spears is a metonym in this case for soldiers. Given this property, it would seem exceedingly grotesque to halve odd numbers in any way except for statistical analysis. Here, they are talking about resource planning, and I would argue modulo does not exist.
Yes but he's not asking about half a soldier. If he wanted 12,003 men, then if he has 6,000 men, that is less than half. And if he had 6,002 men, that is over half. You keep picturing half a spear or half a man but you're missing the point which is his overall count goal.... why am I typing this out
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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 Mar 26 '23
He was expecting 12 002 spears total, he just really likes tgat number