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Ancient Chinese used bamboo sticks as calculator
Approximately 2,300 years ago the ancient Chinese wrote the world’s oldest decimal multiplication table on bamboo sticks. According to experts, it was a very effective calculator that let one do the calculations not only with integers but also fractions. No country in the world had similar calculators at that time.
Five years ago, Beijing Tsinghua University received a gift of nearly two and...
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