I was watching a show on my computer the other night. A character used an abacus to do calculations, which got me wondering- what exactly is an Abacus, and how does one use one?
In the old days, I might make a note to myself and look it up later, perhaps in an encyclopedia. No more, though! All I had to do is pause the show, toggle over to Firefox, type in “wp abacus” and “poof!” there’s Wikipedia’s entry for “Abacus.”
This is what I truly love about the internet.
OK, I can’t say that I’m all that clear on exactly how one uses an Abacus. I realized that what I think of as an Abucus is actually the Chinese Abacus, or “suanpan.” There is a tutorial for learning to use the Abacus. I’ll have to save that for another day.