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Ancient greeks had used the method of exhaustion which is basically equivalent to taking limit as n approaches infinity. Archimedes in 3rd century BC wrote The Sand Recokner in which he estimated the size of the universe and worked with extremely large numbers.

Pic related is my recommendation if you want to learn more about ancient mathematics.

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