Sentences with abacus
ab·a·cus
A a - I've heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.
- Dr Jones believes they may have counted using the horizontal abacuses prevalent in other European nations.
- But for millions of people in the countryside, the abacus is still more common than a laptop.
- Numbers are better manipulated as calculus stones or abacus beads than in human memory.
- The abacus is between the architrave and the aechinus in the capital.
- She gazed up at the sky while clutching a large abacus in her arms as if it were a musical instrument.
- This time a simpleton working an abacus could probably project the winner.
- A young man sat against the wall doing calculation with an abacus and recording data onto paper.
- An abacus with 5 beads per wire will do quite nicely.
- Our eventual aim is to display the complete history of computing, from the abacus to the latest machines.
- Using an abacus can stimulate the nerves in the fingers.
- They also had traditional toys such as an abacus, building bricks and fridge magnet numbers.
- Another contributor brought an abacus, to signal the impact the moneymen are having on the industry.
- The Akkadians invented the abacus as a tool for counting and they developed somewhat clumsy methods of arithmetic.