A Chinese abacus is an ancient but fun to use calculator. Youcould even think of the Chinese abacus as the first computer. Onceyou get the basics of the Chinese abacus, it can be fun to use.Step 1: Lay the abacus down in front of you with the row withthe smallest amount of beads away from you. This is called Heaven.The row with the most beads are called Earth.Step 2: The first column on the right represents ones. Going tothe left, the next column represents tens, next column representshundreds, and so on.Step 3: Each Earth bead represents a value of one, while theHeaven beads represent a value of 5.Step 4: Zero the abacus out by pushing all the Heaven beads upaway from the center, and all the Earth beads down away from thecenter. The abacus is now at zero.Step 5: On the far right column, p