Better start saving: The price of a one-day ticket to Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom is now $99. That's a $4 increase from the previous price hike announced in June 2013. The price hike went into effect Sunday.
Probably of Babylonian origin, an abacus is a calculating instrument that uses beads that slide along a series of wires or rods set in a frame to represent the decimal places. It is the ancestor of the modern digital calculator.
Report Abuse. The origins of the abacus are disputed; many cultures are known to have used similar tools. It is known to have first existed in Mesopotamia[1][2] and China,[3] and was invented sometime between 1000 BC and 500 BC.[4] The first abacus was almost certainly based on a flat stone covered with sand or dust.