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
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
Ms Truss, a former Treasury minister, accused her old department of promoting an "abacus economics" and insisted there needed to be a greater focus on stimulating economic growth.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2023
“I’d say I’ve never met …” — she squints at an invisible abacus — “ … 80 percent of my producers.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 1, 2022
Not just a mere placeholder zero that represents an empty space on the abacus, but zero the number.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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