 ... 106. Swan-pan or reckoning board, in universal use among the Chinese. It consists of an oblong frame of wood, with a bar running lengthwise, forming two compartments ; through this bar, at right angles, are usually placed seventeen (but sometimes...  A Chinese Chrestomathy in the Canton Dialect - Page 368by Elijah Coleman Bridgman - 1841 - 693 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - Art objects, Chinese - 1842 - 338 pages
...are usually placed seventeen (but sometimes more) small pins, having on each seven balls ; five on one side, and two on the other side of the bar. Any...increase or decrease by fifths, fiftieths, &c. By these means, all numbers in the common transactions of business, integral or decimal, are computed... | |
 | Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - China - 1842 - 212 pages
...are usually placed seventeen (but sometimes more) small pins, having on each seven balls ; five on one side, and two on the other side of the bar. Any...unity ; and on the left of this they increase, and oa the right they decrease by tens, handredths, &c. ; the corresponding balls, in the smaller compartment,... | |
 | William B. Langdon, Nathan Dunn - Art objects, Chinese - 1843 - 176 pages
...are usually placed seventeen (but sometimes more) small pins, having on each seven balls ; five on one side and two on the other side of the bar. Any...increase or decrease by fifths, fiftieths, &c. By these means, all numbers in the common transactions of business, integral or decimal, are computed... | |
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...angles, are usually placed seventeen (but sometimes more) small pins, having on each seven balls, five on one side, and two on the other side, of the bar. Any ball in the larger com7 Vid. Sir John Davis, The Chinese, vol. iii. p. 66, with figure turned wrong. — Du Halde, Description... | |
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