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 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 ...

Chicago-based investment and management firm Waterton sold the 631-unit Residences at Springfield Station to Abacus Capital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Longtime National Post columnist Robert Fulford passed away on Tuesday at 92, after a long life well-lived. This is an ...

However, recently a few folks at SRI have given us one more transmission to drool over: the Abacus Drive. The Abacus Drive takes the standard concepts of a cycloidal drive, but takes the eccentric ...

Residents in Kettering will be able to dispose of knives and bladed weapons safely thanks to a scheme supported by Kettering Town Council.

Sweet oranges are widely used in sweet dishes - flavoured with caramel, cinnamon or orange flower water - or as a flavouring for chocolate or rhubarb. Finely grated or julienned orange zest adds a ...

Office woes stemming from the pandemic and the flight-to-quality trend reverberate throughout Orange County. The office vacancy in the county, although unchanged from the summer months, was 14.7 ...

Parisian blacks and grays predominate, but suddenly, here and there, the hot Italian palette intervenes, with a palace of bitter green, of brilliant ochre, pale blue, orange. A few of the palaces ...

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 ...