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From: Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de>
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Subject: Re: soroban (Japanese abacus)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 19:00:14 +0100
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On 16 Nov 2002 llizard wrote:
> I am just relearning how to add and subtract on one of these fantastic
> devices:
> 
>   _____________________________________________________________________
> ,  ___________________________________________________________________ `
>| |(_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)| |
>| |_|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|_| |
>| | |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | | |
>| |(e) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)| |
>| |(j) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)| |
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`Relearning' ? Oh.

So, how _does_ it work then? I can imagine how to add but I 
never knew how one does the other operations.

:)
Andreas

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