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Describe how to represent a number using an Abacus tool.

Describe how to represent a number using an Abacus tool.

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Each bead in the lower row has a value of 1, while each bead in the upper row has a value of 5. To represent a number, the bead is moved to the crossbar. Those beads away from the crossbar represent zeros.
The Figure below represents the number 6908 (Six thousand nine hundred and eight).



After Abacus, the first machine that is usually regarded as the forerunner of modern computers was named the Analytical Engine, and was developed by an English mathematician called Charles Babbage.
In 1939, Professor Howard Aken of Horrard University designed the first computer-like machine named Mark 1. Since then, a series of advancements in electronics has occurred. With each breakthrough, the computers based on the older form of electronics have been replaced by a new “generation” of computers based on the newer form of electronics.

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