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Ouroboros Egypt. pre1400 Japan; India; India again. Graeco-Byzantine; Gnostic image; From a 15th century Greek alchemical text; variation; Another http://abacus.best.vwh.net/oro/ouroboros.html
Extractions: Welcome to Abacus Sports Installations Ltd. Thank you for visiting our site. It is our hope that you will take a moment to learn more about us. It is our goal to provide our clients with the ultimate level of satisfaction. No matter how large or small, each individual client is important to us. We specialize in the supply and installation of synthetic sports flooring on a national/international basis. Specifically our Padenpor sandwich system which is made up of the most durable, highest quality materials. We install various types of sports surfacing for gymnasiums, running tracks, tennis courts, weight rooms and athletic locker rooms. In addition to sports surfaces, we install synthetic flooring for playgrounds, store fronts and horse stables. Our list of references includes schools, corporations, government and private institutions. For more information about our services, click on the link of your choice at the left. Please contact us if you wish to receive further information. We would be happy to provide you with literature and samples pertaining to your surfacing needs.
Abacus The Wersi OpenArtSystem and the abacus keyboard are bound to impress the organ enthusiast. Wersi means to sit down and play. THE abacus SYSTEM IS VERSATILE! http://www.wersi.uk.com/abacus.htm
Extractions: The list of features is virtually endless, but most important is the immense joy of making music with a Wersi instrument. The Wersi OpenArt-System and the Abacus keyboard are bound to impress the organ enthusiast Wersi means to sit down and play. You will master the instruments in no time without having to study huge manuals. In the meantime why not take the virtual Abacus/OAS interactive tour and see the amazing features of the OpenArt-System
Labeling Machines And Labeling Equipment USA manufacturer of labeling and packaging equipment. Semi and fully automatic labelers for a range of applications http://www.abacuslabel.com
Extractions: Customization Welcome! What are the reasons companies buy label applicators, other than the obvious labor savings? Why is it important to look at your entire operation to achieve best integration of labeling equipment? Why is it important for even a small company to look at automating this process? Find answers to these questions and much more in our
Triumph Of The Nerds: A History Of The Computer A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER PREHISTORY, The abacus, a simple counting aid, may have been invented in Babylonia (now Iraq) in the fourth century BC http://www.pbs.org/nerds/timeline/pre.html
Extractions: A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER: PREHISTORY T he 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 and planets, is dated to the first century B.C. It was discovered off the coast of Greece in 1901. Arabic numerals are introduced to Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries A.D. Roman numerals remain in use in some parts of Europe until the seventeenth century. The Arabic system introduced the concepts of the zero and fixed places for tens, hundreds, thousand, etc., and greatly simplified mathematical calculations. John Napier, Baron of Merchiston, Scotland, invents logs in 1614. Logs allow multiplication and division to be reduced to addition and subtraction. Wilhelm Schickard builds the first mechanical calculator in 1623. It can work with six digits, and carries digits across columns. It works, but never makes it beyond the prototype stage. Schickard is a professor at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Blaise Pascal builds a mechanical calculator in 1642. It has the capacity for eight digits, but has trouble carrying and its gears tend to jam.
Extractions: Aerial views of the earth's surface have intrigued people since the first experiments in aerial photography occurred from US Civil War surveillance balloons. Since then, "remote sensing" has evolved to include a vast array of sophisticated instruments collecting information from both aircraft and satellites. One relatively recent advance in remote sensing is spectral imaging, which involves acquiring images at multiple electromagnetic wavelengths simultaneously. The wavelength information can be interpreted as spectral "signatures" of materials on the ground, allowing analysts to identify them remotely. How spectral imaging works: A spectral image can be thought of as many images combined, as shown here. For any location on the ground, the measurements of all the simultaneously acquired images are combined to form a "spectrum," whose bumps and wiggles are indicative of different materials. Although HSI provides an "image" such as people are used to seeing, the spectral information is what makes it unique. The more spectral information available, the better defined the wiggles, and the more accurate the identification of materials.
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Invention Of The Abacus Fascinating facts about the invention of the abacus by Chinese in 3000 BC. abacus. The Chinese abacus was developed about 5000 years ago. http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/abacus.htm
Extractions: of the Abacus by Chinese in 3000 BC ABACUS Calculation was a need from the early days when it was necessary to account to others for individual or group actions, particularly in relation to maintaining inventories (of flocks of sheep) or reconciling finances. Early man counted by means of matching one set of objects with another set (stones and sheep). The operations of addition and subtraction were simply the operations of adding or subtracting groups of objects to the sack of counting stones or pebbles. Early counting tables, named abaci, not only formalized this counting method but also introduced the concept of positional notation that we use today. The next logical step was to produce the first "personal calculator"—the abacus—which used the same concepts of one set of objects standing in for objects in another set, but also the concept of a single object standing for a collection of objects—positional notation. The Chinese abacus was developed about 5000 years ago. It was built out of wood and beads. It could be held and carried around easily. The abacus was so successful that its use spread form China to many other countries. The abacus is still in use in some countries today.
CRASH 24 - Gargoyle Games Interview with Gargoyle Games from Crash magazine. http://www.crashonline.org.uk/24/gargoyle.htm
Extractions: Poster FEW software houses have encountered the success that GARGOYLE GAMES has enjoyed and remained in the background of the industry, It's not that the people behind the company are so secretive, just that they feel their market isn't interested in them because they aren't teenage whizzkids. So ROBIN CANDY and ROGER KEAN hitched a ride up the M5 to investigate the creators of such computer heroes as Cuchulainn the Great and more recently Commander John Kepler Marsh, GREG FOLLIS, ROY CARTER and TED HEATHCOTE. King Street, Dudley is unprepossessing and busy. Far from being some gilded cathedral to computer art, complete with gruesome figurines attached to the high corners, the headquarters of Gargoyle Games is on the third floor of a modest, four-floor brick and concrete office block with an insurance company just below it and the smell of disinfectant haunting the cold stairways. The space consists of an office for Ted, who does the selling, a writing room for Greg and Roy, and a stock room with some games and boxes of toys. The toys are important. The computer industry has always been associated with wizzkids who discovered computers overnight and made a fortune but Gargoyle Games' graduation into the home computer market has been a different pan of chips altogether. It all started about seventeen years ago in a computer research department where Royston (his full name, though Roy will do) and Greg worked for a large services bureau. This entailed them working at the larger end of the computer market and gradually throughout the years they've come down in machine size, though Greg admits that the mini computers they worked on weren't necessarily more powerful than the home micros today.
Kerlins.net > Abacus To The Apple Bobbi s Place Research Bobbi s Research From the abacus to the Apple. FROM THE abacus TO THE APPLE A Timeline of Significant http://kerlins.net/bobbi/research/myresearch/timeline.html
Extractions: Information and Communication Technology Bobbi A. Kerlin "640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981 See also: DATE EVENT 45,000 - 3501 BC Media History Project Timeline 3500-59 BC Media History Project Timeline 3rd Century A.D. The abacus which uses moveable counters to speed calculations is developed 1 - 1099 AD Media History Project Timeline Media History Project Timeline Paper becomes readily available (4) The moveable-type printing press is invented by Johann Gutenburg (8) Media History Project Timeline: 1400 - 1599 The slide rule is developed (4) Media History Project Timeline: 1600s Blaise Pascal, a young French mathematician develops the slide rule, a simple mechanical device for the addition of numbers. It consists of several toothed wheels arranged side by side, each marked from to 9 at equal intervals around its perimeter. The important innovation is an automatic 'tens-carrying' operation: when a wheel completes a revolution, it is turned past the 9 to and automatically pulls the adjacent wheel on its left, forward one tenth of a revolution, thus adding, or 'carrying'. This machine becomes the forerunner of today's high-speed electric calculators (4)
ABACUS abacus is a software system which provides a framework for the implementation of branchand-bound algorithms using linear programming relaxations that can be complemented with the dynamic generation of cutting planes or columns (branch-and-cut, branch-and-price,branch-and-cut-and-price). http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/ls_juenger/projects/abacus.html
Extractions: ABACUS is a software system which provides a framework for the implementation of branch-and-bound algorithms using linear programming relaxations that can be complemented with the dynamic generation of cutting planes or columns (branch-and-cut, branch-and-price, branch-and-cut-and-price). This system allows the software developer to concentrate merely on the problem specific parts, i.e., the cutting plane and column generation and the primal heuristics. Moreover, ABACUS provides a variety of general algorithmic concepts, e.g., enumeration and branching strategies, from which the user of the system can choose the best alternative for his application. Finally, ABACUS provides many basic data structures and useful tools for the implementation of such algorithms. ABACUS is designed both for general mixed integer optimization problems and for combinatorial optimization problems. It unifies cutting plane and column generation within one algorithm framework. Simple reuse of code and the design of abstract data structures and algorithms are essential for a software framework. These requirements are met by object oriented programming techniques. Therefore, ABACUS is implemented as a collection of C++ classes. ABACUS is distributed as a callable library together with an example and the documentation. We provide precompiled libraries for various UNIX platforms and Windows NT. The current version of ABACUS is release 2.2.
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Extractions: Abacus Shade Structures is a manufacturer, designer and installer of quality tensioned shade structures, shade sails and membrane structures in shade cloth or waterproof materials. Abacus is also a custom tarpaulin fabricator for buildings, vehicles and industrial applications. Add to this a wide range of specialty products including trampolines, scaffolding supplies, marquees and gym mats.
Extractions: Go to my home page On the left, you see two abacuses (abaci is also correct). On both abacuses, we see the number 1998. The top area of each abacus is used for fives, and the bottom area is used for ones. Abacuses are used for doing arithmetic. When doing arithmetic, you move the beads. The position of the beads represents the sum, or product, so far. It is how you can remember the partial sum or product. Experts in the use of the abacus can be very fast (and accurate), often faster than an expert with a calculator, especially addition and subtraction. Such an expert on the abacus is especially adept at data entry. In the original version of this article, I mistakenly had the top area of the two abacuses upside down. To start out, the abacus registers zero, with the bottom (ones) beads all the way down, and the top (fives) beads up I won't get deeply into the mechanics of using an abacus. Let me just say, to add one to a number, you either move a bead (in the rightmost "ones" column) up, or move all four beads down then execute a carry into the "fives" area. This carry just involves moving the five bead down (remember that up is a zero and down is a five), or moving it up (to zero) then executing a second carry into the "tens" column. The Japanese abacus, the soroban, is more elegant, as the Chinese abacus has redundant beads. With the Chinese abacus, you never have to use the bottom bead in each column, in both the "ones" and "fives" areas. These extra beads are apparently useful, if you use an extra step every time you carry. You notice that you have all five beads up, so then you know you should execute a carry.
Extractions: Abacus Emedia provide design and develop services and content management products for some of the UK's leading publishing companies. Abacus has developed a variety of e-commerce sites, and our unusually strong IT background complements our essential marketing and design skills. Local Government is a key sector for Abacus, and we have worked with more than 30 local authorities to bring information to the public via the web and kiosk networks. Abacus are building information networks for central government departments and government agencies Abacus e-media is a leading online developer. Offering its clients consultancy, design and technical implementation, Abacus has developed some of the UK's top-rated and award-winning sites. Abacus has applied its experience to the corporate market with exciting results.
Abacus Lighting Limited - Welcome To Abacus Online abacus Lighting Ltd Specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of exterior lighting systems, telecommunications masts, architectural canopies http://www.abacuslighting.com/
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Chinese Abacus The Chinese abacus. The abacus appears in many different guises in many countries. The Chinese abacus counts in base 10, and has been around for a long time. http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/sapienti/abacus01.htm
Extractions: The Abacus appears in many different guises in many countries. They have also been used for many different number bases too. The Chinese Abacus counts in base 10, and has been around for a long time. It can still be seen in use in Chinese stores to reckon the grocery bills, or taught its use in the classroom to the younger generations. With the advent of the pocket sized calculator, in the last couple of decades, the Chinese abacus has still got a place in modern commerce and arithmetic. It does not require any power source, other than human manipulation, and accuracy depends on the proficiency of the user. I am learning by practicing on my wooden abacus . I'd like to show you sone techniques for manipulating it for arithmetic. The little manual that is my guide has been hard to follow since its english is not very clear, and cramps many stages of a process together. I hope that my presentation here using pictorial examples with my own comments will put across the message. Below is a diagram of an abacus (a hybrid of the two I have). It is best to leave any preconcieved notions about beads on sticks behind, as there are things which require a new way of thinking, which hopefully, will not bee too hard to comprehend.
