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  • noun Plural form of abacist.

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Examples

  • Leonardo's monumental work may be called the period of the abacists.

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • Even for many years after the appearance early in the twelfth century of the books explaining the Hindu art of reckoning, there was strife between the abacists, the advocates of the abacus, and the algorists, those who favored the new numerals.

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

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