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~Chinese in Idaho: A Historical Look at Math~

Long after the Idaho dinosaurs died

a bunch of Chinamen moved in
to look for gold.

They found fossils and petrified turds
among the rocks and nuggets,
and showed some of them to Sister Renee.

Sister Renee didn't have much interest
in the fossils and turds, 
but the blur of Chinese fingers
doing math on an abacus was
pretty damned amazing, in her view,
so she wrote a book about that
and completely ignored
the dinosaur fossils and turds.

D. B. Tompsett