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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Tablets, abacuses, and manual tables are all examples of aids to manual calculating. They were used before the proliferation of calculators and computers and were not developed in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages. Hindu-Arabic numerals have remained the preferred way to do calculations.

Tablets, Abacuses, and Manual Tables