{"id":168,"date":"2005-07-31T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=168"},"modified":"2005-07-31T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T17:15:00","slug":"the-abacus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"The Abacus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t like math at all, so I’m not sure why I like abaci, but I do. I have a nice wooden one that I got on eBay, it is one of the Japanese style, which seem more elegant in function to me than the Chinese style. I stumble across this site from time to time… it looks as if the author has expanded it quite a bit in the last year.
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I don’t like math at all, so I’m not sure why I like abaci, but I do. I have a nice wooden one that I got on eBay, it is one of the Japanese style, which seem more elegant in function to me than the Chinese style. 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