Re: soroban (Japanese abacus)
From lgbeard <lgb...@bullreguard.nut>
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· 17 Nov 2002 17:22 · View full thread
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 09:19:46 -0500, llizard <lli...@NOPOLLUTIONwildmail.com> wrote: >In article <e31...@adfpc.amp.uni-hannover.de>, Andreas Freise ><ad...@mpq.mpg.de> wrote: > >>On 16 Nov 2002 llizard wrote: >>> I am just relearning how to add and subtract on one of these fantastic >>> devices: >[snip of soroban] >>So, how _does_ it work then? > >Lesson 2 (from llizard's bbackwards sschool of soroban) > >Example with subtracting 128 from 237 > >traditional method: > < snip > of a very nice tutorial A history with a time line for the abacus. A tutorial for the chinese abacus with ascii diaghrams that someone has done in the past http://fenris.net/~lizyoung/abacus.html#fig1 lgbeard
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