Honestly, it's a weird but intriguing idea. The abacus is all about moving beads to represent numbers, a tangible, iterative process. Modern algorithms are abstract, but they still rely on iterative updates, convergence, and efficient state transitions. In a way, the abacus teaches that calculation is a process of state manipulation over time. If you strip away the fancy syntax, an algorithm is just a set of rules that update a representation until you reach a goal. So yes, there's a lesson in persistence and incremental adjustment—something even a night‑owl coder can appreciate when stuck in an endless loop.