How to pronounce“abacus”in English
though you do not need to use an abacus in daily life at all, you don't even need to use it for the school maths syllabus, still a million Japanese kids every year study the
abacus at about 20,000 abacus schools or kind of after they're called jukus where it's sort of after school clubs.
And Japan has this kind of tradition of these jukus for other things, after school clubs.
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Definitions of “abacus”
A table or tray scattered with sand which was used for calculating or drawing.
“He [Gerebertus] was þe firste þat took abacus of Sarsyns, and ȝaf rules þerynne, þat mowe unneþe be understonde of þe kunnyngeste men of þe craft, þe whiche craftes men beþ cleped abaciste. Marianus. Abacus is a table wiþ þhe whiche schappes be portrayed and i-peynt in powdre, and abacus is a craft of geometrie.”
A device used for performing arithmetical calculations; (rare) a table on which loose counters are placed, or (more commonly) an instrument with beads sliding on rods, or counters in grooves, with one row of beads or counters representing units, the next tens, etc.
“I’ve heard merchants still use an abacus for adding things up in China.”