Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.
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Examples
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In calculations, the abacist knew he had to respect untouched columns just as he had to respect ones in which the beads were moved.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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In calculations, the abacist knew he had to respect untouched columns just as he had to respect ones in which the beads were moved.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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In calculations, the abacist knew he had to respect untouched columns just as he had to respect ones in which the beads were moved.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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One compartment holds a laptop compiler, whereas I pharyngeal taking my analog abacist life after death stag party me near enough to three months ago.
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The abacus was also a way for the skeptical abacist to check the calculator’s result, just in case he didn’t believe it.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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The abacus was also a way for the skeptical abacist to check the calculator’s result, just in case he didn’t believe it.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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The abacus was also a way for the skeptical abacist to check the calculator’s result, just in case he didn’t believe it.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010
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“The faceted world was like a cosmic abacist, tallying as it marched the errors of the infinite.
The Metal Monster 2004
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