Re: soroban (Japanese abacus)
From Rainer Rosenthal <r.r...@web.de>
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· 17 Nov 2002 18:37 · View full thread
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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" :-)
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