Interesting take Mark,
I think basically the original spin I found in print
regarding this postage stamp appears to be humbug.
The author appears to very much like anything "escheresque"
and fails to let facts get in the way of a good story.
It was similar to another morse code stamp he wrote about.
The angular beads are a refinement to easily separate the beads.
Rodney.
"Mark Spahn" <mspahn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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)
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> "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?
>>
>> G'day Dan,
>> cooking the answer, with just a sprinkle of ground assumption,
>> 565387
>> http://cjoint.com/data/dAhbEq81Rw.htm
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