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From: steve@obed.uucp (stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Trachtenberg System of Math
Summary: I found it in the library under 'calculators'
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Date: 3 Nov 88 07:17:45 GMT
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In article <6821@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, aho@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Alex Ho) writes:
> In article <6232@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) writes:
> >As a kid I read part of a book called "The Trachtenberg System of
> >Math" or some such.  
> 
> this system sounds pretty interesting.  Do you have a reference
> to the original source, a book or a more recent magazine article,
> by any chance.
>                                          ...ucbvax!cory!aho

I found it in the Edmonton Public Library under 'calculators' (This was
before I got into 'real' computers.  I was looking for neat things to do
with my TI-58.

As someone else pointed out, the book isn't really all that general 
purpose.  It gives some nice short-cuts and stuff and is (to some
extent) dependant on some of the odities of base-10 math.
 
Pieces might, however, be very applicable to computers, since he was 
trying to do as much as possible without having to do any more than
add, subtract, and multiply/divide by 2.
-- 
Stephen samuel !alberta!{obed,edm}!steve
Look on the bright side... It might have worked!