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1. The abacus was invented by the ancient Chinese (Not true; see 3 below). Different types of abacuses have been invented by many others such as the Romans and Egyptians.
2. Actually it's often wrongly attributed to china. In fact, the oldest surviving abacus was used in 300 B.C. by the Babylonians. (Sort of; see 3 below)
3. The first constrained bead abacus was the Roman Hand Abacus. The Chinese learned of the Roman Hand Abacus through trade with Rome over the Silk Roads. But they thought it an inferior device and ignored it for over a thousand years. Then an interest in rapid calculation with the rise in business caused them to develop the bamboo rod constrained bead abacus based on the Roman Hand Abacus model.
The Romans, in turn, great engineers and copiers that they were, used the Babylonian's line abacus in both decimal and duodecimal modes. The only extant line abacus is The Salamis Tablet, circa 300 BC, but the design was used by the Babylonians and Sumerians as early as 2300 BC.
BTW, the line abacus can do all four arithmetic operations on numbers in exponential form with bases of 10, 12, or 60 (decimal, duodecimal, sexagesimal). Pebbles could be used as tokens to represent the numbers. In Latin the word for pebbles is "calculos", from which we get words like calculate and calculus.
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Where is the country that abacus originated from?
the abacus is made by the Egyptian in Egypt.
Who made abacus?
The abacus has been around for millennia, in various countries. No record of the inventor was made.
What is the history of the abacus?
the history about the abacus is that 3000 years ago the chinese invented the abacus. The abacus was made of wood parrelel rod and beads.
What year was the abacus made?
abacus was used in 300 B.C by the Babylonians. (The oldest) always the oldest from long time ago.
Who was the name of the man who made the abacus?
Fred Robortson
Where is the country that abacus originated from?
the abacus is made by the Egyptian in Egypt.
Who made abacus?
The abacus has been around for millennia, in various countries. No record of the inventor was made.
What is the history of the abacus?
the history about the abacus is that 3000 years ago the chinese invented the abacus. The abacus was made of wood parrelel rod and beads.
When was the Chinese abacus made?
It was made in 1815
What was the Chinese abacus made for and why?
For a calculater
Where was the abacus made?
Originally in China.
Where was the abacus orignally made?
The abacus first appeared around the period 2700-2300 BC in Sumeria.
Who made the fist computer?
The Chinese abacus.
Where was abacus made first?
actient china
Where was the first abacus made?
actient china
Which country made the first abacus?
The answer is China.
Who made the abacus and what other machines did he or she made?
the chinese and they made the wheel barrow
