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they are used to count so you don't have to use your fingers because they didn't have calculators in the tome of the invention of the abacus.

even instead of using chalk because there is no pint in wasting materials when you can repeatedky use when over

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Q: What are facts about the mathematics tool invented by the Chinese called the abacus?
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