X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d4f7dda36d683f42 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-17 10:33:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!baefe.pppool.DE!not-for-mail From: "Rainer Rosenthal" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: soroban (Japanese abacus) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:37:23 +0100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: baefe.pppool.de (213.7.174.254) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1037558011 16274644 213.7.174.254 (16 [54909]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:20714 llizard wrote > > After learning the basics of adding on the soroban, I find that doing > mental arithmetic is suddenly much easier for me to do: mentally adding 38 > to 23, I get fifty eleven and quickly convert it to sixty one. > > Before, I would add 8 and 3, hold 11 in what's left of my mind, then > remind myself what the original numbers were, start over because I'd > already forgotten the eleven, remember the 11, carry the one mentally over > to the... Drat!!! what were the original numbers again? oh yeah, 38 and > 23... so 3+2+carried1=6, so the answer is sixty what was it again??? oh > yeah, 3+8=11... so that's sixty eleven. NO! fifty eleven... No no no > no!!! It's.... > Hey, that's a fine piece of entertaining ASCII-art, for sure! . _ _ /| ) _) (I liked the numbers | /_ _) o o o and the abaci too...) R@ineR - ObASCII: My diddle of your "one" :-)