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Abacus
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Description: "Abacus is a Latin term applied to an apparatus used by the Chinese for facilitating arithmetical operations, consisting of a number of parallel cords or wires, upon which balls or beads are strung, the uppermost wire being appropriated to units, the next to tens, &c.-In classic architecture it denotes the tablet forming the upper member of a column, and supporting the entablature. In Gothic architecture the upper member of a column from which the arch springs."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)
Source: Charles Leonard-Stuart Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)
Keywords: Abacus, Calculator, Math, Counting,
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