Lexicographical Neighbors of Soroban
Literary usage of Soroban
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Japanese Mathematics by David Eugene Smith, Yoshio Mikami (1914)
"The Development of the soroban. Before proceeding to a consideration of the third
period of Japanese mathematics, approximately the seventeenth century of ..."
2. A History of Japanese Mathematics by David Eugene Smith, Yoshio Mikami (1914)
"CHAPTER IIL The Development of the soroban. ... simple but remarkable calculating
machine which is universal in all parts of the Island Empire, the soroban. ..."
3. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1885)
"The soroban ( 3? 31) or Japanese Abacus is one of the first objects that strongly
... There seems to be a tradition amongst foreigners that the soroban is ..."
4. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde by Stichting Mathematisch centrum, Wiskundig Genootschap (Netherlands), Wiskundig Genootschap (1905)
"Addition, subtraction, and multiplication are executed with the soroban very
promptly in the same way as in the ordinary written arithmetic Division can ..."
5. Proceedings of the International Mathematical Congress Held (1902)
"Addition, subtraction and multiplication are done with soroban much in the ...
Division can also be performed on soroban in the same way as it is done in ..."
6. More Queer Things about Japan by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Norma Lorimer, William Adams, Hokusai Katsushika (1905)
"The shopkeepers invariably began by registering on the soroban the price they
had paid, and then calculated the profit. Knowing the price they had paid, ..."
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