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* ¶ The seconde dialoge of accomptynge by counters.
Mayster.
Nowe that you haue learned the commen kyndes of Arithmetyke with the penne, you shall se the same art in counters: whiche feate doth not only serue for them that can not write and rede, but also for them that can do bothe, but haue not at some tymes theyr penne or tables redye with them. This sorte is in two fourmes commenly. The one by lynes, and the other without lynes: in that [yt] hath lynes, the lynes do stande for the order of places: and in yt that hath no lynes, there must be sette in theyr stede so many counters as shall nede, for eche lyne one, and they shall supplye the stede of the lynes.
S. By examples I shuld better perceaue your meanynge.
M. For example of the 117 a ly*nes:
| 1 | 0 0 0 0 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 0 0 0 | ||
| X | 1 | 0 0 0 | |
| 1 | 0 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | ||
| 1 |