suanpan

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See also: suànpán

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Mandarin 算盤／算盘 (suànpán).

Noun

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suanpan (plural suanpans)

  1. A Chinese abacus with two beads on each rod in the upper deck and five beads on each rod in the bottom deck.
    • 2014, Yoshihide Igarashi, Tom Altman, Mariko Funada, Barbara Kamiyama, Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective‎[1], page 64:
      The number of rods in the traditional suanpan is usually odd, and never less than nine.
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