Definition:Abacism/Abacist
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Definition
An abacist is an arithmetician who uses an abacus to do arithmetic, as opposed to an algorist who calculates using algorism.
Sources
- 1997: Donald E. Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1.1$: Algorithms