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Compared to nowadays calculation technology operated by simple click by button, abacus enlarges the process of calculation in an analog way. We can draw the graph below when take the position between the beads and horizontal beam as Y axis, the number it presents as X axis. | Compared to nowadays calculation technology operated by simple click by button, abacus enlarges the process of calculation in an analog way. We can draw the graph below when take the position between the beads and horizontal beam as Y axis, the number it presents as X axis. As a calculation process which needs to be well trained and once defined abacus as a efficient tool, nowadays literally causes hardly use of abacus. | ||
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== Where does media die == | == Where does media die == | ||
Technology lets us have efficiency and accuracy without work being performed by the user. But it is too optimistic to overview what technologies have done until now. We should consider what representational characteristic practices are still used and apply to brand new artifacts that satisfy many of users. In the case of the abacus, we needed to work on encodding and decoding to get the result as possible, yet remediated forms of calculations may no longer have an encoding and decoding process. |
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