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+#let draw-soroban(value, columns: auto, show-empty: false) = {
+  // Parse the value into digits
+  let digits = if type(value) == int {
+    str(value).clusters().map(d => int(d))
+  } else {
+    panic("Value must be an integer")
+  }
+  
+  // Determine number of columns
+  let num-columns = if columns == auto {
+    digits.len()
+  } else {
+    columns
+  }
+  
+  // Pad with leading zeros if needed
+  let padded-digits = if digits.len() < num-columns {
+    (0,) * (num-columns - digits.len()) + digits
+  } else {
+    digits.slice(calc.max(0, digits.len() - num-columns))
+  }
+  
+  // Skip leading zeros if show-empty is false
+  let start-idx = if not show-empty {
+    let first-nonzero = padded-digits.position(d => d != 0)
+    if first-nonzero == none { 0 } else { first-nonzero }
+  } else { 0 }
+  
+  let display-digits = padded-digits.slice(start-idx)
+  if display-digits.len() == 0 { display-digits = (0,) }
+  
+  // Drawing parameters
+  let rod-width = 3pt
+  let bead-size = 12pt
+  let bead-spacing = 4pt
+  let column-spacing = 25pt
+  let heaven-earth-gap = 20pt
+  let inactive-color = gray.lighten(70%)
+  let active-color = black
+  let bar-thickness = 2pt
+  
+  // Calculate total width and height
+  let total-width = display-digits.len() * column-spacing
+  let total-height = heaven-earth-gap + 5 * (bead-size + bead-spacing) + 10pt
+  
+  box(width: total-width, height: total-height)[
+    #place(top + left)[
+      #for (idx, digit) in display-digits.enumerate() [
+        #let x-offset = idx * column-spacing + column-spacing / 2
+        
+        // Decompose digit into heaven (5s) and earth (1s) beads
+        #let heaven-active = if digit >= 5 { 1 } else { 0 }
+        #let earth-active = calc.rem(digit, 5)
+        
+        // Draw rod
+        #place(
+          dx: x-offset - rod-width / 2,
+          dy: 0pt,
+          rect(
+            width: rod-width,
+            height: total-height,
+            fill: gray.lighten(80%),
+            stroke: none
+          )
+        )
+        
+        // Draw heaven bead
+        #let heaven-y = if heaven-active == 1 {
+          heaven-earth-gap - bead-size - 2pt  // Active (touching bar)
+        } else {
+          5pt  // Inactive (at top)
+        }
+        
+        #place(
+          dx: x-offset - bead-size / 2,
+          dy: heaven-y,
+          circle(
+            radius: bead-size / 2,
+            fill: if heaven-active == 1 { active-color } else { inactive-color },
+            stroke: 0.5pt + black
+          )
+        )
+        
+        // Draw earth beads
+        #for i in range(4) [
+          #let is-active = i < earth-active
+          #let earth-y = if is-active {
+            heaven-earth-gap + bar-thickness + 2pt + i * (bead-size + bead-spacing)
+          } else {
+            total-height - (4 - i) * (bead-size + bead-spacing) - 5pt
+          }
+          
+          #place(
+            dx: x-offset - bead-size / 2,
+            dy: earth-y,
+            circle(
+              radius: bead-size / 2,
+              fill: if is-active { active-color } else { inactive-color },
+              stroke: 0.5pt + black
+            )
+          )
+        ]
+      ]
+      
+      // Draw reckoning bar
+      #place(
+        dx: 0pt,
+        dy: heaven-earth-gap,
+        rect(
+          width: total-width,
+          height: bar-thickness,
+          fill: black,
+          stroke: none
+        )
+      )
+    ]
+  ]
+}
+
+#let flashcard(
+  front-content,
+  back-content,
+  card-width: 3.5in,
+  card-height: 2.5in,
+  safe-margin: 5mm,
+  show-cut-marks: false,
+  show-registration: false
+) = {
+  let card = rect(
+    width: card-width,
+    height: card-height,
+    stroke: if show-cut-marks { 0.25pt + gray } else { none },
+    radius: 0pt
+  )[
+    #box(
+      width: card-width - 2 * safe-margin,
+      height: card-height - 2 * safe-margin,
+      inset: safe-margin
+    )[
+      #align(center + horizon)[
+        #front-content
+      ]
+    ]
+    
+    // Registration mark
+    #if show-registration {
+      place(
+        bottom + right,
+        dx: -2mm,
+        dy: -2mm,
+        circle(radius: 0.5mm, fill: gray.lighten(70%))
+      )
+    }
+  ]
+  
+  (
+    front: card,
+    back: rect(
+      width: card-width,
+      height: card-height,
+      stroke: if show-cut-marks { 0.25pt + gray } else { none },
+      radius: 0pt
+    )[
+      #box(
+        width: card-width - 2 * safe-margin,
+        height: card-height - 2 * safe-margin,
+        inset: safe-margin
+      )[
+        #align(center + horizon)[
+          #back-content
+        ]
+      ]
+      
+      // Registration mark
+      #if show-registration {
+        place(
+          bottom + left,
+          dx: 2mm,
+          dy: -2mm,
+          circle(radius: 0.5mm, fill: gray.lighten(70%))
+        )
+      }
+    ]
+  )
+}
+
+#let generate-flashcards(
+  numbers,
+  cards-per-page: 6,
+  paper-size: "us-letter",
+  orientation: "portrait",
+  margins: (top: 0.5in, bottom: 0.5in, left: 0.5in, right: 0.5in),
+  gutter: 5mm,
+  show-cut-marks: false,
+  show-registration: false,
+  font-family: "DejaVu Sans",
+  font-size: 48pt,
+  columns: auto,
+  show-empty-columns: false
+) = {
+  // Set document properties
+  set document(title: "Soroban Flashcards", author: "Soroban Flashcard Generator")
+  set page(
+    paper: paper-size,
+    margin: margins,
+    flipped: orientation == "landscape"
+  )
+  
+  set text(font: font-family, size: font-size, fallback: true)
+  
+  // Calculate card dimensions
+  let page-width = if orientation == "portrait" { 8.5in } else { 11in }
+  let page-height = if orientation == "portrait" { 11in } else { 8.5in }
+  
+  let usable-width = page-width - margins.left - margins.right
+  let usable-height = page-height - margins.top - margins.bottom
+  
+  // Determine grid layout
+  let (cols, rows) = if cards-per-page == 6 {
+    (2, 3)
+  } else if cards-per-page == 4 {
+    (2, 2)
+  } else if cards-per-page == 8 {
+    (2, 4)
+  } else if cards-per-page == 9 {
+    (3, 3)
+  } else {
+    panic("Unsupported cards-per-page value")
+  }
+  
+  let card-width = (usable-width - gutter * (cols - 1)) / cols
+  let card-height = (usable-height - gutter * (rows - 1)) / rows
+  
+  // Generate cards
+  let cards = numbers.map(num => {
+    flashcard(
+      draw-soroban(num, columns: columns, show-empty: show-empty-columns),
+      text(size: font-size)[#num],
+      card-width: card-width,
+      card-height: card-height,
+      show-cut-marks: show-cut-marks,
+      show-registration: show-registration
+    )
+  })
+  
+  // Layout pages
+  let total-cards = cards.len()
+  let total-pages = calc.ceil(total-cards / cards-per-page)
+  
+  for page-idx in range(total-pages) {
+    let start-idx = page-idx * cards-per-page
+    let end-idx = calc.min(start-idx + cards-per-page, total-cards)
+    let page-cards = cards.slice(start-idx, end-idx)
+    
+    // Front side
+    grid(
+      columns: (card-width,) * cols,
+      rows: (card-height,) * rows,
+      column-gutter: gutter,
+      row-gutter: gutter,
+      ..page-cards.map(c => c.front)
+    )
+    
+    if page-idx < total-pages - 1 or end-idx == total-cards {
+      pagebreak()
+    }
+    
+    // Back side (mirrored for duplex printing)
+    grid(
+      columns: (card-width,) * cols,
+      rows: (card-height,) * rows,
+      column-gutter: gutter,
+      row-gutter: gutter,
+      ..range(rows).map(r => {
+        range(cols).rev().map(c => {
+          let idx = r * cols + c
+          if idx < page-cards.len() {
+            page-cards.at(idx).back
+          } else {
+            rect(width: card-width, height: card-height, stroke: none)[]
+          }
+        })
+      }).flatten()
+    )
+    
+    if page-idx < total-pages - 1 {
+      pagebreak()
+    }
+  }
+}
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