Eksempler på abacus

• Only one out of three had even heard of an abacus.

• The police national computer will be a mere abacus compared with the computer required to administer the national identity card scheme.

• I think that somebody has run away with the abacus as the scheme will clearly cost considerably more.

• In this interesting context, he suggested that abacus man had no heart, compassion or feeling.

• I have only a simple abacus; how can it be so?

• He is particularly rewarded if he foresees it and produces, say, a pocket calculator in place of an abacus; or even, these days, produces a pocket computer.

• I have not used a slide rule, calculator or abacus to do the calculation, although before the end of the debate we may need an abacus.

• An inverted kalasha adorns the top, which also has a corbelled abacus.

• Machines for calculating fixed numerical tasks such as the abacus have existed since antiquity, aiding in computations such as multiplication and division.

• Their abacus blocks are decorated with volutes containing human and animal figures.

• Each column has a capital of two parts, the upper, on which rests the lintels, being square and called the abacus.

• Using the abacus, find all the products of the divisor from 1 to 9 by reading the displayed numbers.

• The nano-abacus has the potential to be used in a variety of nanotechnological inventions such as the nano-computer.

• The name and logo of this software are based on the abacus calculation tool.

• The long and fascinating history of the abacus also turns up time and time again in counting history.