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Re:Abacus tournaments in Japan by JJMcJ on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:19PM (#21086706)
Friend had a Japanese style abacus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soroban#/media/File:Soroban.JP...

I played around with it a bit, it was great fun but no match for Excel.

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Re:Abacus tournaments in Japan by JJMcJ on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:21PM (#21086725)
And there are abacuses very similar in usage in Roman times.

The Japanese ones, conforming to stereotype, seem to be the most elegant.

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