Yes they were the calculators of the past. A few people still use them today.
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Toddlers love things that they can move or that move them. So, little cars that they can push or ride or little abacuses tend to be fun for them. It is also good for them to count and play with puzzles with shapes.
They are not used commercially but are still commonly used in schools for basic maths education.
The Mesopotamians are believed to be the first civilization to have used abacuses, between around 2700-2300 BC.
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They didn't have electronic calculators. Abacuses (or is it abaci? no clue... oh well...) are calculators, and they could use them to calculate things.
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Plural of abacus: abaci or abacuses.
Normally we say abacuses, pronounced "abba cusses;" some particular people use abaci, usually pronounced "abba sigh." The excruciatingly correct pronounce abaci like a Roman "abba key."
The natural numbers are the numbers used to count things (the counting numbers). The smallest number of things you can have when you have some to count is one. Thus the smallest natural number is 1.
because we use the old ways to count things.
People used Floppy disks, CDs and if you want to count music, records