INTRO The earliest recognized device for computing was the abacus, invented in Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE.

主题曲...最早被认可计算设备是算盘 大约公元前2500年发明于美索不达米亚。

Kind of like when hitting 10 on that basic abacus.

类似于当算盘敲到10时。

According to my abacus, that's 200,000 man-years of hard labor.

按照我算盘，那是20万工年苦工。

In the 16th century, the era of the counting rods came to an end to be completely replaced by the abacus.

在16世纪，算筹时代结束了，完全算盘所取代。

From the abacus, to room-sized machines, to desktops, to computers in our pockets.

从算盘，到房间大器，到台式，再到我们口袋里电脑。

Though the month was February below it was May in the abacus of the column.

虽然下面月份是二月， 但在列算盘中是五月。

The earliest computers were manual counting devices, like the abacus, while later ones used mechanical parts.

最早计算是手动计数设备，如算盘，而后来计算则使用械零件。

The abacus was created because, the scale of society had become greater than what a single person could keep and manipulate in their mind.

人们制造算盘是因规模已经比个人可以在脑中储存和操作规模更大。

There are many variants of the abacus, but let's look at a really basic version with each row representing a different power of ten.

算盘有许多变种，但让我们来看看一个基本版本其每一行代表着10不同次方。

These were very early abacuses, which developed around 4,000 years ago into the more traditional style of beads threaded onto rods and set into a frame.

这些都是非常早期算盘，大约在4000年前发展成更传统形状，将珠子穿过杆并镶嵌成一个框架。

For example, I remember when I got the information about China it came with an " abacus, " the sort of traditional Chinese calculator.

例如，我记得当我获得有关中国信息时，它附带了一个“算盘”，一种传统中国计算器。

In fact, for certain problems that are of great interest to us, today's fastest supercomputer is closer to an abacus than to a quantum computer.

事实上， 对于我们非常感兴趣某些问题，当今最快超级计算更接近算盘而不是量子计算。

It is a tale that starts with a 42,000-year-old tally stick found in South Africa and moves through finger-counting systems to the abacus and the slide-rule.

这个故事从在南非发现一根有 42,000 年历史计数棒开始，通过手指计数系统发展到算盘和计算尺。

Mr Hunt, a former foreign secretary, has put the Treasury firmly back in control of policy, a humiliation for Ms Truss, who had promised to rip up " abacus economics" .

前外交大臣亨特让财政部重新牢牢掌握了政策控制权，这对曾承诺撕毁“算盘经济学”特拉斯来说是一种羞辱。

83. The intelligent biologist and athletic mountain climber were on a voyage to reach the peak where they would use their abacus to collect statistics for mathematics biology and ecology experiments in a new climate.

这位聪明生物学家和健壮登山队员处于攀向峰顶途中，在那儿（峰顶）他们将使用算盘，在新气候下数学生物学和生态学实验收集数据。

All was warm, sunny, and silent, except that a solitary bee, which had somehow got within the hollow of the abacus, was singing round inquiringly, unable to discern that ascent was the only mode of escape.

一切都是温暖、阳光明媚、寂静，除了一只孤零零蜜蜂，它不知怎么钻进了算盘空心，在周围盘旋着询问地歌唱，看不出上升是唯一逃生方式。