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To: SunkenCiv

Calculus is nothing more than counting by making piles of stones. Very, very old. The abacus was originally a way of keeping the stones from getting lost by making them into beads and putting them on strings, later wires.


22 posted on 08/30/2006 11:13:39 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: RightWhale
Calculus is nothing more than counting by making piles of stones.
I thought it came from dentistry.
31 posted on 08/30/2006 11:23:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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