术语“算筹”的详细信息

英译术语:

bamboo count

汉语语境:

中国古代一直是用算筹进行计算的。自明代中期前后，随着算筹被算盘所取代，珠算遂代替筹算成了普遍的计算方式。珠算取代筹算是社会经济发展的需要，也是一个长期的演变过程。近期唐长安西市遗址出土的釉陶算珠，疑是传为北朝数学家甄鸾注《数术记遗》中所谓“珠算板“上的算珠。

英语语境:

In ancient China, people used bamboo counts for calculation. After the middle period of the Ming Dynasty, abacuses replaced bamboo counts and became the popular way of calculation. The replacement which experienced a long process complied with the need of socioeconomic development. The beads of glazed pottery excavated in the relic of the Western Marketplace of Chang'an, capital of the Tang Dynasty, were suspected to be the beads of abacus board mentioned in Anecdote of Mathematics by Zhen Luan, a mathematician in Northern Dynasty.