She added that pupils learning to use the abacus could calculate faster than those using electric calculators. |
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They were all excited doing their addition, subtractions, multiplications and divisions, mentally and with abacus. |
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In architecture, one of the Greek orders, characterized by columns with no base, with a capital consisting of annulets, an echinus and an abacus. |
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Numbers are better manipulated as calculus stones or abacus beads than in human memory. |
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They also had traditional toys such as an abacus, building bricks and fridge magnet numbers. |
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Our eventual aim is to display the complete history of computing, from the abacus to the latest machines. |
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Another contributor brought an abacus, to signal the impact the moneymen are having on the industry. |
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A young man sat against the wall doing calculation with an abacus and recording data onto paper. |
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She gazed up at the sky while clutching a large abacus in her arms as if it were a musical instrument. |
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The Akkadians invented the abacus as a tool for counting and they developed somewhat clumsy methods of arithmetic. |
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But for millions of people in the countryside, the abacus is still more common than a laptop. |
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The waterleaf is a broad, unribbed, tapering leaf curving up towards the angle of the abacus and turned in at the top. |
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After that, there was only the sound of clicking abacus beads and the rustle of papers. |
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Morgan here says you find the abacus between the triglyphs in the frieze section of the entablature of classical Greek Doric temples. |
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We're talking people who need a abacus to work out how many grams are in an eight ball. |
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If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. |
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The basket and abacus of the capital are entirely decorated with interlaced plant motifs. |
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Also on the anvil are a Braille slate, abacus for mathematics, geometry set with raised numbers and an alphabet plate to enable the visually impaired to learn to write. |
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An older method was to use a counting frame such as the abacus. |
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The uppermost molding, or abacus, of this capital is 2.8 meters wide. |
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At the same time, there has been a revival of interest in the ancient methods of calculation, especially the use of simple and unsophisticated gadgets such as the abacus. |
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This time a simpleton working an abacus could probably project the winner. |
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In the end, a computer is nothing more than a complicated abacus. |
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The new system may be simpler but you still need an abacus to work it out. |
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The abacus is between the architrave and the aechinus in the capital. |
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The company has also just completed the advanced course in abacus, which goes beyond addition and subtraction all the way up to square roots and cube roots. |
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The capital, which should be as high as the radius of the bottom of the column, is composed of an abacus, an echinus, and annulets next to the column. |
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But abacus and similar deals were already sucking money out of Rhineland, according to a person familiar with the matter. |
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Monkey Abacus is a Chinese abacus simulator that is, after a fashion, the ancestor of our dear devices! |
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It is a high-tech relative of technologies like paper, which provides a portable, reliable memory, or the abacus, which aids mental arithmetic. |
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A traditional snooker scoreboard resembles an abacus, and records units, tens and hundreds via horizontal sliding pointers. |
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Thus, Goldman found them a willing buyer for the junk piled into abacus. |
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But as Web pages burgeon with ever more complex designs and fancy features to show information, writers of HTML are starting to feel as if they are trying to do calculus with an abacus. |
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While in Russia, she visited a Moscow market where a salesclerk was using the abacus to tally sales and make change for customers. |
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Recalling the fun of their childhood years made fingers nimble once again as they spun spinning tops, and counted on an abacus. |
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These numbers, stored in quipu, could be calculated on yupanas, grids with squares of positionally varying mathematical values, perhaps functioning as an abacus. |
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She was sitting at the parlour table with a small abacus in front of her. |
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The abacus is obviously only a concrete way of representing a number in the decimal system of notation, that is, by means of the local value of the digits. |
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The abacus is moulded in three sections and has four main concave faces corresponding with the tapering volutes below and truncated by a short sqaure face on the diagonal. |
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