On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:31:13 GMT, l, not -l wrote:

> On 20-Oct-2010, blake murphy > wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:37:44 -0500, Andy wrote:
>>>
>>> What I found astonishing/interesting about the abacus was you could do
>>> math without having to write anything down in the process!!! You could
>>> just see it as patterns at a glance!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks to the Greeks for the invention!!!
>>>
>>> Andy
>>
>> the chinese invented the abacus, you ****ing dope.
>>
>> blake
>
> Not if you believe Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus

o.k., maybe oopsie. the damned thing certainly got around, though. looks
like a lot of independent invention going on.

your pal,
blake