Abacus used in a sentence

Abacus in a sentence as a noun

But so would an abacus or a pen and paper.

Extreme mode: Run this code on an abacus.

It's not like we have to calculate everything with an abacus.

The abacus makes no distinction between input and output.

Yes, an abacus is "Turing Complete" if it is infinitely large and you, as a human being, do the logic in your head.

I'll admit I didn't think of the out-of-index lookup, but my main thought was 100/1000000 vs 10/1000000 isn't a big deal unless the DB is running on an abacus.

With the abacus, you don't have to memorize a lot of arithmetic combinations; all you have to do is to learn to push the little beads up and down.

I find it handy that different iterations of abacuses tend to be cross-compatible.

You can follow that up by reading about the magnetar trade, or abacus - where Goldman Sachs sold their customers a CDO all the while shorting it because they knew it sucked.

Considering the abacus is finger operated, it is digital.

There may occasionally be minor architectural variations, but it usually isn't too difficult to port your abacus drivers.

Slightly offtopic: The abacus is a fascinating tool; often considered an early prototype for tangible interfaces.

Instead, the abacus beads, rods, and frame serve as manipulable physical representations of numerical values and operations.

"Among other historical inspirations, we suggested the abacus as a compelling prototypical example.

In my time, my father would wake me up by cutting me in half, then I'd have to walk forty miles uphill through a blizzard to get to my computer and then I'd have to electrocute myself to turn it on and I'd interface with it using an abacus and punch cards!

Then what are you talking about?And please, please, please: before we open up Pandora's shipping crate full of geeky arguments about how an end table, a sofa cushion, and an abacus could also be construed as this particular claims construct, can we also acknowledge that we don't know exactly which claim in the document was found binding on HTC?

The last few lines of the article shed some light on OP's opinion of browsing with JavaScript disabled:"you need to support browsers that don't have JavaScript enabled.... ok, that last one was sufficiently low-probability that I'll stop there before I start telling you not to use Meteor if your customers gave up their computers in favor of the abacus.