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[DoomYoshi]

Originally Posted by Sal

BTW Kuger..the abacus in the hands of an expert will beat the socks off an electronic calculator.

Perhaps you could elaborate on this point. Even an expert abacist would be hard pressed to match the 3d graphing and calculus capabilities of modern calculators. Even regular operations will be performed faster, with more efficiency and higher accuracy on a calculator. The only people who use abaci are those who are too poor to afford calculators or too nostalgic to.

This is like saying: An NES, with an expert programmer, could blow the socks off a Wii. Nostalgic suckers like us want to believe it but it is pure bollywogs.

[Mighty Midget]

Funny thing is, if they get the quantum computer operative, that will be something between an abacus and a modern computer, except they'll be spinning electrons or atoms instead of sliding them.