By such a definition, Gwen Boyle's newest public art work, Suan Phan (Abacus), is a smashing success. Officially unveiled this past weekend, it stands at the Keefer Street end of historic Shanghai ...

The abacus is a computing device on which arithmetic calculations are performed by sliding counters (beads, pebbles, or flat discs) along rods, wires or lines. The instrument may have originated in ...

An abacus is an ancient tool used for counting, consisting of a framed set with rods on which balls or beads are moved. The abacus has been in existence in China since the second century BCE, although ...

The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars ...

An Abacus is a weapon type that is used by characters who fall under the Merchant archetype umbrella. Below is a comprehensive list of all Abacuses available in-game. Hover over a specific item ...

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and nothing beats a classic omelette or scrambled eggs and toast. However, you can't create the perfect breakfast if you don't have the right tools.

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Peter Cade / Getty Images An abacus is a calculation tool used by sliding counters along rods or grooves in order to perform mathematical functions. In addition to calculating the basic functions ...

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The Russian abacus (tchoty) is held so that counters move crosswise. It has no crossbar, and all counters in one row have the same value. Most rods have ten counters. An occasional row has fewer, to ...