OT - Re: Microsoft closes another deal, is redhat next?
Frank Cox
theatre at sasktel.net
Fri Jul 6 08:13:26 UTC 2007
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:02:46 +0200
Andrew Kelly <akelly at corisweb.org> wrote:
> learn to use an abacus.
Learn to use one anyway. I keep an abacus on a shelf beside my computer to do
binary arithmetic with. It's great for binary stuff -- I can do that sort of
calculation faster on my abacus than I can do them on paper or by trying to
figure them out on the computer. Plus I can visualize the working of the
operations and see if I'm going off of the rails.
I used to have a tiny little 10-wire abacus that came with a "how to use an
abacus" book, but now I have a real nice 13-wire Chinese abacus and I wouldn't
give it up.
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