ILLUSTRATED SCRAPS
THS JAPANESE RECKONER.
The Japanese shopkeepers use the ibaeus. or so universcliy that •he f.tran'--p- quickly comes to a realis.ritr sense of the üb*ence of all mental tsiculutioTi in the empire. In lieu of "»per and pencil any child or adult will t once , take up the soroban when givea i problem ;■! raatlicmatlcs and rattle its leads about a? though lie were amusing :imself. The principb of the little in.rniment is this: En eh of the (ivo bead* n the bread lower division of the board epresents one unit, and each solitary,
bend in the narrow upper division reprefive units. Each vertical coltuim :.- .hui worth ton ur.it", iiach vertical column represents units ten limes frreatfr than tho?e in the rolumn rnmod.aU'ly to the right of it. exactly iis in our oun tyerem of notation by means of (he Ajabie numciol?. Any •fiini in arithmetic can he dono on t"i)c soroban, even i-.-i the extrnction of -quare and cubic roor?.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 202, 24 August 1904, Page 9
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161ILLUSTRATED SCRAPS Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 202, 24 August 1904, Page 9
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