soroban ASCII Art

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Example with subtracting 128 from 237

1. Put 237 onto the soroban, then starting with the hundreds column: 2-1=1

   1a
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    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | ||
    ||_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_o|
    || | | | | | | | | | | | | | o o o|
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o|
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o ||
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o|
ejm_|o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o|_

   1b
   _____________________________________
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | ||
    ||_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_o|
    || | | | | | | | | | | | | | o o o|
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o o|
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ||
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | o|
ejm_|o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o|_

2. Moving to the tens column: 3-2=1

   _____________________________________
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | ||
    ||_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_o|
    || | | | | | | | | | | | | | o o o|
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o | | o|
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ||
    |o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o|
ejm_|o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o|_

3. Moving to the ones column: 7-8 oh oh, can't do that, so subtract 10 and
add 2

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