HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Ancient Romans developed the Roman hand abacus, a portable, but less capable, base-10 version of earlier abacuses like those that were used by the Greeks and Babylonians.
Detailed explanation-2: -(c. 300 CE) The Roman hand-abacus was the first portable counting board.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool used in the ancient Near East, Europe, China, and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Arabic numeral system. The exact origin of the Abacus is still unknown.
Detailed explanation-4: -It’s been used for centuries in China and has a long history of use in Ancient Greece, Rome, Russia Japan, and Babylon. The name is of Greek origin. Abax means “flat surface” in Ancient Greek. It was taken by the Romans and became abacus in Latin.