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    Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, starting with tally sticks and progressing to counting rods, abacuses, and reckoning boards. The abacus was developed as early as 2400 BCE in Babylonia. The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1901, is believed to be the earliest known analog computer, dating back to around 100 BCE in ancient Greece.

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    Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, starting with tally sticks and progressing to counting rods, abacuses, and reckoning boards. The abacus was developed as early as 2400 BCE in Babylonia. The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1901, is believed to be the earliest known analog computer, dating back to around 100 BCE in ancient Greece.

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    Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, starting with tally sticks and progressing to counting rods, abacuses, and reckoning boards. The abacus was developed as early as 2400 BCE in Babylonia. The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1901, is believed to be the earliest known analog computer, dating back to around 100 BCE in ancient Greece.

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    Pre-20th century

    The Ishango bone, a bone tool dating back to prehistoric Africa


    Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, mostly using one-to-one
    correspondence with fingers. The earliest counting device was most likely a form of tally stick.
    Later record keeping aids throughout the Fertile Crescent included calculi (clay spheres, cones,
    etc.) which represented counts of items, likely livestock or grains, sealed in hollow unbaked clay
    containers.[a][4] The use of counting rods is one example.

    The Chinese suanpan (算盘). The number represented on


    this abacus is 6,302,715,408.
    The abacus was initially used for arithmetic tasks. The Roman abacus was developed from
    devices used in Babylonia as early as 2400 BCE. Since then, many other forms of reckoning
    boards or tables have been invented. In a medieval European counting house, a checkered cloth
    would be placed on a table, and markers moved around on it according to certain rules, as an aid
    to calculating sums of money.[5]

    The Antikythera mechanism, dating back to ancient Greece circa 150–


    100 BCE, is an early analog computing device.
    The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be the earliest known mechanical analog computer,
    according to Derek J. de Solla Price.[6] It was designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was
    discovered in 1901 in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera,
    between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to approximately c. 100 BCE. Devices of
    comparable complexity to the Antikythera mechanism would not reappear until the fourteenth
    century.[7]
    Pre-20th century

    The Ishango bone, a bone tool dating back to prehistoric Africa


    Devices have been used to aid computation for thousands of years, mostly using one-to-one
    correspondence with fingers. The earliest counting device was most likely a form of tally stick.
    Later record keeping aids throughout the Fertile Crescent included calculi (clay spheres, cones,
    etc.) which represented counts of items, likely livestock or grains, sealed in hollow unbaked clay
    containers.[a][4] The use of counting rods is one example.

    The Chinese suanpan (算盘). The number represented on


    this abacus is 6,302,715,408.
    The abacus was initially used for arithmetic tasks. The Roman abacus was developed from
    devices used in Babylonia as early as 2400 BCE. Since then, many other forms of reckoning
    boards or tables have been invented. In a medieval European counting house, a checkered cloth
    would be placed on a table, and markers moved around on it according to certain rules, as an aid
    to calculating sums of money.[5]

    The Antikythera mechanism, dating back to ancient Greece circa 150–


    100 BCE, is an early analog computing device.
    The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be the earliest known mechanical analog computer,
    according to Derek J. de Solla Price.[6] It was designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was
    discovered in 1901 in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera,
    between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to approximately c. 100 BCE. Devices of
    comparable complexity to the Antikythera mechanism would not reappear until the fourteenth
    century.[7]

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