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by Rendello 455 days ago
Have you used it much? I'd like one, but I can imagine it sitting on my desk for years unused. I have "Secrets of Mental Math" by Arthur Benjamin and have wanted to practice some of those mental math skills, and I wonder if learning the soroban will interfere with my existing mental calculation framework (which is admittedly weak at the moment).