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
Recently, a lovely and well-meaning friend texted me one of those trending articles that make you want to trade your smartphone for an abacus and never speak of the internet again.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 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
She’s setting them up, almost like an abacus.
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Kidwell wasn’t aware of any abaci in the museum’s collection that used an arrangement similar to Apple’s, and even the ones that came close wouldn’t have been arranged horizontally like Apple’s icon is.
From The Verge ● May 26, 2019
Other abaci emoji also have issues, but Apple’s is the worst offender And in the name of fairness, some abaci from different phone manufacturers are also off, historically speaking, but Apple’s is the worst offender.
From The Verge ● May 26, 2019
On the other hand, Samsung, Twitter, and WhatsApp’s abaci are also incorrect.
From The Verge ● May 26, 2019
Last week Harvard University dedicated its new Computation Laboratory, devoted solely to overgrown abaci, their design, construction, care & feeding.
From Time Magazine Archive
One is cluttered with newspapers and tattlers and scandal sheets, another with petit-hourglasses and abaci.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Much of the buzz around the subject in recent years has been about the development of powerful quantum computers which, the narrative goes, will make our fastest supercomputers seem like abacuses by comparison.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
The floating ships in the fantasy role-playing game Honkai: Star Rail are populated with traders, gourmets and literati who surf their texts on jade abacuses.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
Sports are represented in the form of tiny windsurfers and badminton shuttlecocks, and he has acquired some oddities, like helicopters, pencil stubs, abacuses and matchbooks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2016
Behind him are displayed a 1,500-year-old sake pot, a vertical wall of abacuses and various objets d'art befitting a place walking distance from Little Tokyo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2015
They used slates for writing, and abacuses, weights, and measures for math.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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