Inspiration
I was watching a Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament, and they had a side event called talent show, and one of the Japanese players did mental math multiplication of up to 4 digit numbers in seconds. His method was a mental abacus, which got me interested in abacus
What it does
Does basic math operations, but outputs your input numbers and answers in a custom ASCII abacus
How I built it
I used C++ and macOS's terminal to program and run it
Challenges I ran into
Properly formatting the output, code efficiency, negative and decimal values, passing a 2D array into a function (the last 2 I did not do)
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Successfully outputting to an abacus correctly, albeit only handling integers
What I learned
How to read and roughly use a Suanpan abacus for basic math
What's next for Abacus Calculator
Handling decimal values, printing multiple abacuses in line or completely new interface
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