History Of Abacus

The origins of the abacus calculators difficult to trace because of something like an abacusis widely known in many cultures around the world. It is said that the abacus was in Babylonand in China around the year 2400 BC and 300 BC. Ancient people count by making the lines and put the stones on the sand which is an early form of a wide range of variation ofthe abacus.

The use of the word abacus dates back in 1387, borrowed the Latin word derived from the word abakos abax which in Greek means "the table calculation." In Greek, the word also means abax tables for drawing geometric shapes on top of dust or sand. Linguistsspeculate that the word comes from the word ābāq abax which in Hebrew means "dust."Another opinion says comes from the word abacus abak which in the Phoenician languagefamily means "sand."

In the application of the abacus, the people made ​​a lot of tips to help speed up the calculation calculations. This type of calculation method using the abacus is called abacuscalculation. By the Ming Dynasty, the abacus calculation is not only applicable to the operation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, but also to measure the land,shapes and sizes of various objects.

As abacus is a simple, cheap and easy way to remember and do the calculation, it was widely used in China. Gradually, it spread to Japan, Korea, the United States andSoutheast Asia, and other countries and regions - regions. Even in the common use of modern electronic calculator, the abacus is still being used in addition and subtraction for comfort.

Did you know that education in Japan to be developed for using an abacus. Yes! The most ancient history of the computer is becoming more and more brilliantly by helping educational success.

In Japan, modified with an abacus bead on top but there are 4 bars of beads on the bottom grate and is called the Soroban. This method proved to be a major change in education. Due to these Japanese kids start liking math. So do not be surprised when they were destroyed in World War 2, Japan was able to get up.

This success was followed by neighboring countries such as China, Taiwan, and South Korea. Now you know yourself that they eventually become prosperous by industry basedhi-tech. Because after all human technology built from the foundations of mathematics.