Actually, the number is 5653587 (you skipped a digit).
And if we're looking through the abacus from the back,
the number is ...7853565... . If you can figure out the
significance of this number, you're smarter than I am.
But what is odd is that this abacus has Chinese-style
rounded beads, but has a Japanese-style arrangement
of beads (1 bead on the upper deck, 4 beads on the lower
deck). All the Japanese sorobans I have seen (and finger-
manipulated) have angular beads, whose shape is like <>,
which presumably is easier to manipulate with your fingertips.
So it looks like this is a (politically correct?) hybrid
Chinese-style/Japanese-style abacus/soroban.
-- Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)
"rodney" <pookiethai@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dan in NY"
>> My main question is this: What is the number on the soroban on the
>> postage stamp?
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> G'day Dan,
> cooking the answer, with just a sprinkle of ground assumption,
> 565387
> http://cjoint.com/data/dAhbEq81Rw.htm
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