Tablets, Abacuses, and Manual Tables

question 25

Multiple Choice

Tablets, abacuses, and manual tables

• A) are no longer used, because of the proliferation of calculators and computers.
• B) are examples of aids to manual calculating.
• C) were developed in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages.
• D) replaced Hindu-Arabic numerals as the preferred way to do calculations.
• E) All of the above.

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