developed period bce sumer sumerians' abacus consisted table successive columns delimited successive orders magnitude sexagesimal number system ref name ifrah ref original style usage lines drawn sand pebbles abaci modern design still used calculation tools today chinese abacus th century bc ancient india grammarian p ini formulated grammar sanskrit rules known ashtadhyayi highly systematized technical panini used metarules transformations recursions
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