The Russian abacus was brought to France around 1820 by the mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who served in Napoleon's army and had been a prisoner of war in Russia.
Abacus 5 is an action sports manufacturing and distribution company that is based out of Shanghai, China.
The foundation stone of the event was laid in the late 1990s when the Computer Club of Loyola School organized Abacus, the first I.T. Quiz in Jamshedpur.
Paul Abacus’ thinking is heavily inspired by the work of polymath R. Buckminster Fuller.
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Having constructed an updated version of Fuller's visionary data-visualization device, the Geoscope, Abacus utilizes this device to make the argument that we are living near the end of the Screen Age, a historical moment when "the era of nations" will wane.
In the fictional world of David Foster Wallace's futuristic novel Infinite Jest, "Those younger staffers who double as academic and athletic instructors are, by convention at North American tennis academies, known as 'prorectors.'" (Abacus edition 1996, n. 4 at p. 983)
In June 1998, R:BASE Technologies, Inc. (a privately held company in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA) acquired the R:BASE products from Abacus Software Group.
Joachim Lambek (1961) received 15 June 1961 How to Program an Infinite Abacus, Mathematical Bulletin, vol.
Soroban, an abacus developed in Japan, and derived from the suanpan