Types Abacus - Abacus Mesopotamian
Archaic Mesopotamina Abacus Abacus Stone
Numeric Chart Mesopotamian
Numeric Charter of Mesopotamian
Rests in the Louvre
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Mesopotamian Abacus Originis
Believed That this Mesopotamian abacus, was used by the Babylonians Also approximately the year 2700 and the year 2600 BC (Before Christ).
Unfortunately to date the origin of the abacus as Previously Mentioned in like writings, it is clear That is different about recent and ancient historians have different dubious assumptions about some of them agree That the origin of this fabulous and primitive tool calculation and computing Originated in India, Mesopotamia and Egypt.
The period 2700-2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian Abacus, a table of successive columns Which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of Their sexagesimal number system.
Materials and Construction Mesopotamian Abacus
The Abacus Mesopotamian, was built in flat stone and a kind of sand mixture. In Which the letters were drawn in the sand and stones on sand Placed it Represented: The value, quantity or numbers.
Brief History of Mesopotamian Abacus
Some scholars point to a character from the Babylonian cuneiform Which May have derived from a representation the abacus. Carruccio is the belief (and other ancient Babylonian scholars ) That Old Babylonians "May have used the abacus for Addition and subtraction operations. Yet this primitive device proved Please Difficult to use for more complex calculations."