abacists

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The method of the 'grunt work' of this process apparently had two camps, Abacists and Algorists, and he was more the former.

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One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

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noun

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

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noun

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

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The method of the 'grunt work' of this process apparently had two camps, Abacists and Algorists, and he was more the former.

I find it funny that your response to this is so similar to that of the abacists to Fibonacci.[5] [1].

After that (there was a bit of a divide between abacists and algebrists), people doing algebra in Europe used that book until the printed arithmetics/algebras of the 16th century.

I read somewhere some very proficient abacists are able to just picture the instrument in their heads and then proceed to do impressive mental arithmetic by just operating the imagined abacus.

That same reddit thread has link to an "algorists vs abacists " article [1] which purports to back this up, but I can't confirm because the article is paywalled for me.

Its an emergent process, and as a system we don't see a pool of folk communities of "algorists vs abacists" until sometime around the homebrew computer club.

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That same reddit thread has link to an "algorists vs abacists " article [1] which purports to back this up, but I can't confirm because the article is paywalled for me.

Its an emergent process, and as a system we don't see a pool of folk communities of "algorists vs abacists" until sometime around the homebrew computer club.