Beijing shop clerk Gao Shunxiang has been using an abacus at work for 28 years. He could end up being part of the last generation of abacus users in China. Cui Meng / China Daily The abacus faces ...

The abacus, for centuries an essential computation tool, has today largely been replaced by electronics. In Japan, though, it remains in use as a way to teach children basic arithmetic and to keep ...

The abacus is considered the oldest calculating device used by humans but in the 1940s, a Korean man invented an abacus-like counting method using fingers called jisanbeop or chisanbop, a term that ...

How did the abacus get infantilised? This complex instrument we rendered safe and childish and turned into a frippery of the Victorian nursery. We have mockingly demeaned it into a linear bar at the ...