abacus

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

Cassiopeia proved it by using her fingers to do sums on her abacus, and flicked the beads up and down with nary a wince.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

All three brands also use Western-style abaci, but with seven, six, and five beads, respectively, making them little more than depictions of toys.

From The Verge ● May 26, 2019

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

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

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

A section of the exhibition devoted to educational toys includes abacuses, toy telephones, a child-size loom and kits for constructing machines, cars and buildings.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2015

When Bailey was six and I a year younger, we used to rattle off the times tables with the speed I was later to see Chinese children in San Francisco employ on their abacuses.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou