In a message dated 1/31/00 2:25:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, rabelerb@pilot.msu.edu writes: > Umm.. you know, that contraption with the little beads in it that the > ancient > Romans or Greeks used to count. :) Wasn't it the Chinese? ---- Jonah Cohen <ComAsYuAre@aol.com> http://linux.hypnotic.org/~jonah/