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Definition of Swanpan
1. n. The Chinese abacus; a schwanpan.
Definition of Swanpan
1. a Chinese abacus [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swanpan
Literary usage of Swanpan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde by Stichting Mathematisch centrum, Wiskundig Genootschap (Netherlands), Wiskundig Genootschap (1905)
"squares marked on a swanpan made of paper or wood in the same way as we have ...
In the squares on the first horizontal row of swanpan, the names of several ..."
2. A Concise Treatise on Commercial Book-keeping: Elucidating the Principles by Benjamin Franklin Foster (1837)
"The swanpan is still the universal ready reckoner of China, and an instrument of
the same description is used in Russia. The use of tallies is rapidly ..."
3. A Concise Treatise on Commercial Book-keeping: Elucidating the Principles by Benjamin Franklin Foster (1836)
"The swanpan is still the universal ready reckoner of China, and an instrument of
the same description is used in Russia. The use of tallies is rapidly ..."
4. Elements of arithmetic, algebra and geometry by George Lees (1826)
"The Chinese use a board called a swanpan, on which they perform calculations ...
The swanpan, although a little dissimilar to the abacus in construction, ..."
5. The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and co (1827)
"By this machine, which is called a swanpan, arithmetical operations are rendered
palpable. ... than the most skilful of the Chinese with the swanpan. ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"The Roman abacus, the Chinese swanpan and the success of the numeral-frames used
in our primary ..."
7. Nieuw archief voor wiskunde by Stichting Mathematisch centrum, Wiskundig Genootschap (Netherlands), Wiskundig Genootschap (1905)
"squares marked on a swanpan made of paper or wood in the same way as we have ...
In the squares on the first horizontal row of swanpan, the names of several ..."
8. A Concise Treatise on Commercial Book-keeping: Elucidating the Principles by Benjamin Franklin Foster (1837)
"The swanpan is still the universal ready reckoner of China, and an instrument of
the same description is used in Russia. The use of tallies is rapidly ..."
9. A Concise Treatise on Commercial Book-keeping: Elucidating the Principles by Benjamin Franklin Foster (1836)
"The swanpan is still the universal ready reckoner of China, and an instrument of
the same description is used in Russia. The use of tallies is rapidly ..."
10. Elements of arithmetic, algebra and geometry by George Lees (1826)
"The Chinese use a board called a swanpan, on which they perform calculations ...
The swanpan, although a little dissimilar to the abacus in construction, ..."
11. The Bengal almanac, for 1827, compiled by S. Smith and co (1827)
"By this machine, which is called a swanpan, arithmetical operations are rendered
palpable. ... than the most skilful of the Chinese with the swanpan. ..."
12. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"The Roman abacus, the Chinese swanpan and the success of the numeral-frames used
in our primary schools, seem to point to the fact that it is best to teach ..."
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