Sentences with phrase «traditional abacuses»

Rather than wooden beads as found on traditional abacuses, our innovative device calculates with pulses of light — and simultaneously stores the result.»

Prof. C David Wright, an expert in electronic engineering and co-author of the study said: «This device is able carry out all the basic functions you'd associate with the traditional abacus — addition, subtraction, multiplication and division — what's more it can do this using picosecond (one - thousandth of a billionth of a second) light pulses.»