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*ABACUS

Abacus in Chinese was a widely used computing machine


before invention of modern computers. The Chinese abacus
has two beads in upper deck (heaven beads) and five beads
in the lower deck (earth beads ) . Each heaven bead in the
upper deck has a of five ;each earth bead in the lower
deck has a value of 1 . Beads are considered counted ,
when moved towards the central bar that separates the
two decks.

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