abacus

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Calculators, cars and probably candles and the abacus were considered a menace to society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

The number crunchers, bean counters, and abacus economists, so derided by Liz Truss, have taken back control.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2024

For example, you can add numbers perfectly using an abacus, in which wooden beads are pushed back and forth to represent arithmetic operations.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2023

Thus many of her pieces, like earrings with lines of delicately strung freshwater pearls that resemble an abacus, are made entirely in house.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2022

It was just like an abacus, except for one problem.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife