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An older method was to use a counting frame such as the abacus.
She gazed up at the sky while clutching a large abacus in her arms as if it were a musical instrument.
Numbers are better manipulated as calculus stones or abacus beads than in human memory.
Another contributor brought an abacus, to signal the impact the moneymen are having on the industry.
But for millions of people in the countryside, the abacus is still more common than a laptop.
An abacus with 5 beads per wire will do quite nicely.
The abacus, as we know it today, first made its appearance in 1200 A.D. in China, where it was called ‘suan-pan’.
At the same time, there has been a revival of interest in the ancient methods of calculation, especially the use of simple and unsophisticated gadgets such as the abacus.
Dr Jones believes they may have counted using the horizontal abacuses prevalent in other European nations.
The imported toys on show at the ongoing exhibition range from fighters, space-ships and battle-ships and building-blocks to abacuses.
If we could build a fully functioning quantum computer, it would represent an advance on the traditional electronic computer as big as the electronic computer represents over the abacus.
Using an abacus can stimulate the nerves in the fingers.
The new system may be simpler but you still need an abacus to work it out.
In the end, a computer is nothing more than a complicated abacus.
This time a simpleton working an abacus could probably project the winner.
Our eventual aim is to display the complete history of computing, from the abacus to the latest machines.
The Akkadians invented the abacus as a tool for counting and they developed somewhat clumsy methods of arithmetic.
Use a calculator, put pencil to paper, try an abacus.
They also had traditional toys such as an abacus, building bricks and fridge magnet numbers.
A young man sat against the wall doing calculation with an abacus and recording data onto paper.