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Sometimes prisoners put some marks on the walls of the prison to keep count of the days. Is there a name for that mark?
 

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Sometimes prisoners put some marks on the walls of the prison to keep count of the days. Is there a name for that mark?

It's called a tally mark.
If it's four vertical lines crossed with a horizontal fifth line, then each set of five lines is called a five-bar gate.
 
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