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English translation of Xu Yue's Shushu Jiyi?

Is there an english translation of Xu Yue's Shushu Jiyi? This is the work, around 190 CE, often described as containing the first description of the abacus. It is often associated with China's "Ten Computational Canons", but usually isn't listed as one of the 10 officially.

I understand that it describes 14 different computational mechanisms/strategies, one of which is the abacus. Even if there is no full translation, is there perhaps a paper or book chapter in english which describes each of the 14 techniques?

I am a mathematician, but I know basically nothing about ancient chinese mathematics, so maybe there are easy references that I'm not aware of. Thanks for any help!