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From: campbell%hpdmd48@hplabs.HP.COM (Gary Campbell)
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Subject: Re: Japanese Abacus
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dgl292@athenanet.com (Doug Lee) writes:

>dates, etc.  Then there's the weird stuff, like trying to do base
>16 calculations!  I started doing this somewhere around 1984 or

I havben't tried it, but I have thought of doing hex calculations on a
Chinese abacus which has two beads above the bar and five below.