On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 17:56:03 -0600, Arri London >
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>blake murphy wrote:
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>> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:31:13 GMT, l, not -l wrote:
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>> > On 20-Oct-2010, blake murphy > wrote:
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>> >> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:37:44 -0500, Andy wrote:
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>> >>> 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!!!
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>> >>> Thanks to the Greeks for the invention!!!
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>> >>> Andy
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>> >> the chinese invented the abacus, you ****ing dope.
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>> >> blake
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>> > Not if you believe Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus
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>> o.k., maybe oopsie. the damned thing certainly got around, though. looks
>> like a lot of independent invention going on.
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>As is true for most great ideas, such as the wheel, writing and
>agriculture

Agriculture was invented? Man early on was a hunter and gather and
when society became more stationary, agriculture happened. I must not
understand what kind of agriculture? If you mean irrigation- viaducts-
no that was the Romans- still wondering...here. Taking produce to
markets might have been Greek but in my mind that is not "inventing
agriculture."

aloha,
Cea