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The earliest recorded calculating device is the abacus. Used as a simple computing device for performing arithmetic, the abacus most likely appeared first in Babylonia (now Iraq) over 5000 years ago.

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The different calculating devices were calculator,pascals bone,abacus.

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The Abacus

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