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<blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 145747" data-attributes="member: 192438"><p>Wasn't Stonehenge the caveman's calcuator, sorta giant abacus?</p><p></p><p>There's the Ishango bone:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html" target="_blank">www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html</a> .</p><p></p><p>(I think it's just tooth marks, perhaps ancient dog training?).</p><p></p><p>Here's the quipu, imagine your income tax return looking like this:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/laarch/inca/quipue.html" target="_blank">www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/laarch/inca/quipue.html</a> .</p><p></p><p>(sort of, "knit your accounts" and careful you don't drop a stitch! Mind you, these have survived, how long will floppy discs last?).</p><p></p><p>Never mind "walk like an Egyptian", do maths like them too:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fractions/egyptian.html" target="_blank">www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fractions/egyptian.html</a> .</p><p></p><p>(actually, I wouldn't mind that bit too much, it's the having to "weave your own paper" out of reeds first ....)</p><p></p><p>And - of course - we all loved doing Roman numerals at school:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.roman.html" target="_blank">mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.roman.html</a> .</p><p></p><p>That's not much used in MMV! </p><p></p><p>As for Motorola 6800, didn't that have the registers in external memory? Slowed it down a bit ....</p><p></p><p>Whenever my computer crashes, I still mutter "Int 21H"!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spiney, post: 145747, member: 192438"] Wasn't Stonehenge the caveman's calcuator, sorta giant abacus? There's the Ishango bone: [URL="http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html"]www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/Ancient-Africa/ishango.html[/URL] . (I think it's just tooth marks, perhaps ancient dog training?). Here's the quipu, imagine your income tax return looking like this: [URL="http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/laarch/inca/quipue.html"]www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/laarch/inca/quipue.html[/URL] . (sort of, "knit your accounts" and careful you don't drop a stitch! Mind you, these have survived, how long will floppy discs last?). Never mind "walk like an Egyptian", do maths like them too: [URL="http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fractions/egyptian.html"]www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fractions/egyptian.html[/URL] . (actually, I wouldn't mind that bit too much, it's the having to "weave your own paper" out of reeds first ....) And - of course - we all loved doing Roman numerals at school: [URL="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.roman.html"]mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.roman.html[/URL] . That's not much used in MMV! As for Motorola 6800, didn't that have the registers in external memory? Slowed it down a bit .... Whenever my computer crashes, I still mutter "Int 21H"! [/QUOTE]
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