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Origin and Development of the Chinese Abacus
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Volume 6 ,  Issue 1  (January 1959) table of contents
Pages: 102 - 110  
Year of Publication: 1959
ISSN:0004-5411
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Shu-T'ien Li  Engineering Consultant, Mobile, Alabama
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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