The reckoning board, also called a memory board or hole board, could be used on its own as a basic counting device or used with an abacus for engineering...
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In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix...
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The Reckoning is a British docudrama television miniseries that depicts the career and sexual crimes of British media personality Jimmy Savile, portrayed...
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Roman land surveys, there was, in addition to the hand abacus, a true reckoning board with unattached counters or pebbles. The Etruscan cameo and the Greek...
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allerlei Handthierung / geschäfften und Kaufmanschafft. Calculator Reckoning board Vladimir Esaulov (2019) History of the Abacus and Ancient Computing...
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predecessor to some board games. ("The word abax, or abacus, is used both for the reckoning-board with its counters and the play-board with its pieces, ...
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Principles of Hindu Reckoning (Kitab fi usul hisab al-hind) is a mathematics book written by the 10th- and 11th-century Persian mathematician Kushyar...
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representatives crouch before him. On a table lays a calculating table (a reckoning board or abax, used for complicated calculations), with a number of small...
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Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (officially abbreviated as WAR) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based on Games Workshop's Warhammer...
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The traverse board is a tool formerly used in dead reckoning navigation to easily record the speeds and directions sailed during a watch. Even crew members...
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