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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: August 20, 2017, 08:41:02 am »

Dear Rube,

     That's great!
The cyclical dates are not that hard - there are 10 characters on the right side, which are each reproduced 6 times; and 12 characters on the left side, which are each reproduced 5 times. And by and large, one can easily differentiate the characters from each other (the 'ding' looks like a 'T'; the 'yi' looks like a 'Z'; the 'jia' looks like a 'plus sign' in a box on top of a stick; etc. incidentally, these are a few of the memnonics tricks I use to remember; though with Ding, I also simply remember how to write 'Ding Erzhong'  Grin).
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Joey
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