The abacus is a computing device on which arithmetic calculations are performed by sliding counters (beads, pebbles, or flat discs) along rods, wires or lines. The instrument may have originated in ...

[Creel] has a top ten that should appeal to many Hackaday readers: the top 10 craziest x86 assembly language instructions. You have to admit that the percentage of assembly language programmers is ...

A common misperception of Chinese historical society is that it lacked scientific and technological ability—and that modern China has 'emerged' from a traditional shell. Somehow, they stumbled upon ...

Few things in Chinese culture are more widely misunderstood outside of China than the Chinese language. The Chinese write very differently from us and indeed from all other literate societies in today ...

Chinese cabbages are available all year, look for fresh, firm heads that feel heavy for their size. Tiny black flecks on the leaves are normal and harmless. Reject heads that look wilted, limp or ...

The Chinese paddlefish belongs to an ancient lineage of paddlefish that has been around for at least 100 million years. But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone ...

In the room is a desk, and on that desk is a large book. The book is written in English and has instructions on how to manipulate Chinese characters. He doesn’t know what any of it means ...

Find out how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac decided who would have which year named after them. You can find out which Chinese zodiac you and your little ones are over on Blue Peter.

The Washington Pattern Instructions (WPI) Committee is pleased to announce that the state’s pattern jury instructions are available to the public on a free web-site. This free public access is ...

The Chinese government is rebuffing the notion that its face masks exported to other countries were "defective" and suggested that the nations did not "double-check" the instructions. China's ...

MIPS and GIPS are common metrics today as countless CPUs execute millions and billions of instructions per second. See TOPS and FLOPS. IPS cannot be used to compare different CPU architectures.

The abacus is a computing device on which arithmetic calculations are performed by sliding counters (beads, pebbles, or flat discs) along rods, wires or lines. The instrument may have originated in ...