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    The abacus is one of the earliest counting devices, believed to have first been used by the Babylonians around 2400 BC. It was widely used in Europe, China, and Russia for centuries before the adoption of the modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The abacus was used by the ancient Sumerian civilization, with the early Babylonians using their sexagesimal system on the abacus to perform mathematical functions like addition and subtraction.

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    The abacus is one of the earliest counting devices, believed to have first been used by the Babylonians around 2400 BC. It was widely used in Europe, China, and Russia for centuries before the adoption of the modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The abacus was used by the ancient Sumerian civilization, with the early Babylonians using their sexagesimal system on the abacus to perform mathematical functions like addition and subtraction.

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    The abacus is one of the earliest counting devices, believed to have first been used by the Babylonians around 2400 BC. It was widely used in Europe, China, and Russia for centuries before the adoption of the modern Hindu-Arabic numeral system. The abacus was used by the ancient Sumerian civilization, with the early Babylonians using their sexagesimal system on the abacus to perform mathematical functions like addition and subtraction.

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    The abacus is one of many counting devices invented in ancient times to help count

    large numbers, but it is believed that the abacus was first used by the Babylonians
    as early as 2,400 B.C.1The abacus was in use in Europe, China, and Russia,
    centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral system.

    Mesopotamian or Sumerian is one of the oldest human civilizations. The people of


    Sumerian civilization used the first abacus for counting. The old Babylonian scholars
    used their sexagesimal system in the abacus for mathematical functions like addition
    and subtraction.
    Anaïs, Anaís, or Anais (French pronunciation: ​[anaˈis]) is a female given name. It is
    widely thought to be a French Provençal and Catalan version of Anna. Some
    suggest it is derived from Anahita, the name of the Persian goddess of fertility and
    healing.

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