Counting board
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counting-board-189-7633010
title:
Counting board
text:
The counting board is the precursor of the abacus, and the earliest known form of a counting device. Counting boards were made of stone or wood, and the counting was done on the board with beads, pebbles etc. Not many boards survive because of the perishable materials used in their construction, or the impossibility to identify the object as a counting board.The counting board was invented to facilitate and streamline numerical calculations in ancient civilizations. Its inception addressed the n
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Early computing device
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_board
date created:
2008-06-12T18:26:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T05:00:49Z
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