Interested in the Abacus?

Here is a great website to check out:
Abacus: The Art of Calculating with Beads

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/ (http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/)

Now: Could there be a contest between the Abacus and the computer? And which one do you think would win?

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I'd have to say the computer would win, as cool as the abacus is. XD

Count me in as another vote for the computer :lol: Unless, of course, the power has gone out!

I never understood how to work an abacus, you can do division, addition, multiplication, everything!

Count me in as another vote for the computer :lol: Unless, of course, the power has gone out!

Ha! :blush: I really liked that joke, Lissa.

And you know, with the amount of local electrical storms increasing, the abacas, just might be our final back-up plan. (Dig out the instruction manual by candle-light, folks!) :lolol:

:heart: xx dee

I don't own an abacus. I wouldn't mind having one but why bother when the computer is so much easier and faster? Pocket calculators work just as well too.

I don't own an abacus. I wouldn't mind having one but why bother when the computer is so much easier and faster? Pocket calculators work just as well too.

I love the idea of a classical abacus for its beauty of design. Check out this link, if you'd like! Abacus As Art: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/modeabacus/
(http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/abacus/modeabacus/)

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