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From counting on our fingers, to the high-tech machines of the future that were once only a figment of our imagination but now dominate most of our everyday lives, people and computers have evolved into an ever changing world where the toys of today are the outdat ....

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.... have made the invention and since may ancient empires used it, some of the first to use it were the Chinese and so the credit has been given to them. Another invention that comes from the abacus and was used in a similar fashion was the soraban. The soraban comes from the Japanese who perfected it to there use. The soraban is slightly different in the fact that it has one bead on the top part or each place value, and has only five beads in each place value on the bottom part. Even though we now have calculators and computers to make our computations, in some of the less developed countries these two inventions that were made nearly three thousan ....