blake murphy wrote:
>
> 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.


As is true for most great ideas, such as the wheel, writing and
agriculture