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What are prayer beads used for?

prayer beads are used for counting when your praying


The uses beads along a string to represent numbers?

Abacus, also known as a counting frame, is used (mainly) in Asia. Beads on wires, wooden dowels, etc, are representative of numbers.


Can you name the counting device that consists of a frame with rods on which 10 beads can slide to and fro?

The Chinese abacus.


How does the abacus look like?

it is a counting frame with beads. go here to see it http://www.kidestore.co.uk/images/images_big/melissa_and_doug_abacus.jpg


What is a term for frame with wires along which beads are slid used for calculating?

an abacus


A counting frame's real name?

A counting frame is the common name for an abacus. An abacus is a centuries old counting and calculating tool that is still widely used by merchants in Asia and Africa.


Show you a rosery beads?

Rosary beads are meant for counting purpose in the devotions


What is To tell the beads?

To tell the beads is to pray with a rosary ( a string of beads used in praying).Dictionary.com definition:bead  [beed]count / say / tell one's beads, to say one's prayers, using rosary beads: There were a few old women counting their beads in the hushed silence of the chapel.


Early Chinese calculators?

Abacus- a frame that holds rods with beads attached and was used for arithmetic


What do they call a Counting Frame?

A counting frame is commonly referred to as an abacus. It is a calculation tool used for performing arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.


What is an original mechanical counting device?

The abacus is the original mechanical counting device. It was likely first used over five thousand years ago, and used beads to keep track of numbers.


What are the Islamic beads used for?

They don't mean anything except that they are used for counting the number of times a word has been repeated during their remembrance of god.