{"id":247358,"date":"2023-01-15T19:22:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=127101"},"modified":"2023-01-15T19:22:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T17:22:05","slug":"abacus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/abacus\/","title":{"rendered":"Abacus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1 \">\n<aside id=\"republication_tracker_tool-2\" class=\"republication_tracker_tool clearfix\">\n<h5 class=\"adtitle\">Republish for Free<\/h5>\n<div class=\"license\">\n<p><button name=\"Republish This Story\" id=\"cc-btn\" class=\"republication-tracker-tool-button\">Republish This Story<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/abacus.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/abacus.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"message\">\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The word abacus was borrowed from latin, but came before that from the Greek <em>abax<\/em> \u201cboard, slab, plate\u201d and probably ultimately from the Hebrew word; <em>abaq<\/em> \u2018dust\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The abacus as we know it today is a calculating device with rows of wires along which you slide beads.<\/p>\n<p>An abacus is actually an ancient object that was used by the Babylonians, Greeks and Romans and is still found in many parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest abacus was probably a board covered with sand, on which a clerk could draw figures and then rub them out again and again, and this is what the word first referred to in English.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_127096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reachtrust.co.za\/content-creation\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alan Straton Content Creation \" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127096 lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/abacus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/abacus.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Straton Content Creation \" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Content Creation Happiness is a Piece of Cake. 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The word abacus was borrowed from latin, but came before that from the Greek abax \u201cboard, slab, plate\u201d and probably ultimately from the Hebrew word; abaq \u2018dust\u2019. 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