Part one of term paper
From counting on our fingers, to the high-tech machines of the future that were once only a figment of our imagination but now dominate most of our everyday lives, people and computers have evolved into an ever changing world where the toys of today are the outdated machines of tomorrow. Its hard to think that just a few hundred years back we ...

Part two of term paper
... beads that were hung on the rods. The abacus was also broken up into a top and bottom part, the top part had two beads and each bead in the row was assigned a value of five(of whatever place value the beads were in), and the bottom part had five beads and each bead had a value of one (same goes for these as well). As the origin is not known as to whom may have made the invention and since may ancient empires used it, some of the first to use it were the Chinese and so the credit has been given t ...