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
It is called an Abacus
the inventer to the abacus is unknown but all that i know so far is that its was invented in babylonia and was made with wood when first invented
A Chinese abacus is called a Suan Pan. It works because it is based upon the decimal system, so the beads are used to count groups of ten.
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a shape is called a shape in mathematics
It is called an Abacus
The Chinese invention that was the first calculator was called an abacus. It was invented sometime between 2700 and 2300 BC.
the inventer to the abacus is unknown but all that i know so far is that its was invented in babylonia and was made with wood when first invented
its called the abacus
A Chinese abacus is called a Suan Pan. It works because it is based upon the decimal system, so the beads are used to count groups of ten.
the abacus. http://condor.depaul.edu/~sjost/isp121/documents/abacus.gif
It is believed that the Chinese first invented lanterns.So it is called Chinese lantern.
The first Abacus (plural Abaci) are believed to have come from Mesopotamia circa 2700 BC.the Chinese abacus, called a suànpándates to around the 2nd cenruary BC and is beleived to be a copy of the Roman abacus from around the 1st centuary BC.The Roman one was thought to be a stolen, and improved Persian abacus and the Persians believe to have copied the Egyptian one.
The roman counting board used to solve problems in mathematics was called abacus [άβαξ, in the Greek language]
The abacus was supposedly invented by a guy called Xu Yueh during the bronze age... say 3000BC, nobody knows exactly. Hope this helps.
The ancient Romans developed an Abacus. Blaise Pascal, however, was a French mathematical genius, and at the age of 19, he invented a machine, called the Pascaline, that could do addition and subtraction. He invented this machine to help his father, who was also a mathematician.
If you mean electronically, then it would still be called a calculator. But, before that, people used the abacus, which had lots of sliding thingies and such.