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The abacus is ordinarily attributed to the Chinese, but similar counting devices are known in many different ancient cultures. The system of mathematics used with the Indo-Asian abacus is what set it apart.
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The ancient Chinese also had their own abacus device for calculating purposes
If you are refering to Chinese abacus their earliest rudimentary design of abacus has 1/4 rod beads (quite similar to the later Japanese soroban abacus). Various other types of abacus design were also seen afterwards, but the advance type of 2/5 rod beads became standard and classic. Afterwards, the basic 1/5 rod beads particularly became the type of basic design. The Roman abacus may be not connected to the Chinese abacus.
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the country that invented the abacus is China Actually it is unknown as the abacus seems to predate recorded history and different versions were independently invented in various places.
the country that invented the abacus is China Actually it is unknown as the abacus seems to predate recorded history and different versions were independently invented in various places.
The earliest recorded calculating device is the abacus. Used as a simple computing device for performing arithmetic, the abacus most likely appeared first in Babylonia (now Iraq) over 5000 years ago.
China invented the abacus .
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How did the abacus occur?