One of the advantages of the abacus is that it is easy to use. Another is that it does not require electricity to work. You can use it no matter where you are.
An Abacus has beads and strings.
ABACUS is a name of a calculating apparatus - it is not an acronym.
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.
No, the Abacus was invented by the Sumerians in 2,700 BCE
It goes by the number places.
One of the advantages of the abacus is that it is easy to use. Another is that it does not require electricity to work. You can use it no matter where you are.
The abacus is a mathemetical instrument used to calculate. It can do anything from addition ,maltiplicaiton, division, subtraction to calculating fractions. It is an ancient Chinese instrument used in shops for billing. Today there are many classes to teach children about the abacus and how it functions. Many adults too have found their intrests lying here and decide to work on this for their career. There are international, national, state, district, city, institution level competitions in which about a thousand student will participate. Believe me it is great fun.
China invented 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.
ABACUS
How did the abacus occur?
An Abacus has beads and strings.
The Chinese abacus
Fractions? correct answer is factions not fractions
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.
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