Abaci

diggFurldel.icio.usFacebook

The abacus was one of the earliest known ways of counting beads. The abacist simply strings his or her beads into a 10x10 frame. When the frame is full, the abacist has collected 100 beads. It was in this way abaci led to stamp collecting and sticker albums, and from there, pokemon.

All content copyright Tom Crowley

Unless otherwise stated, the content of this page is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License