reckoner

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Alongside a new "ready reckoner" tool, allowing farms to calculate how much they might be offered, Irranca-Davies announced £33m for nine preparatory schemes to " back farm businesses during the transition to the new SFS".

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2025

There is even a random-text-generating word-frame called the Engine, reminiscent of Gottfried Leibniz's late-seventeenth-century calculating machine, the step reckoner.

From Nature • Sep. 26, 2017

Man, now having to calculate the various allocations of "leisure," has become, in the realm of consumption, Homo oeconomicus and reckoner of time.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the sand reckoner was destined to meet his fate while reckoning in the sand.

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

On large matters he went right by the very largeness of his mind; but in small matters he suffered from the lack of any logical test and ready reckoner.

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)