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Are you aware that arithmetic is also known as the “Method of the Indians” or the “Modus Indoram”? Indian arithmetic is much simpler than its Greek counterpart, due to the simplicity of the Indian number system. The zero and place value notation are the other distinguishing element of the system. Even Arabs learnt this method and named it as “Hindasa” or “Hindu Science”. |
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Japanese modified the Chinese abacus by removing one bead from the upper deck and one from the lower deck in every column, making it purely for the decimal system. They even stopped the usage of the Chinese division table, the Qiuchu. |
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Are you aware that 80% of the global population has a more developed left brain than the right one? |
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The traditional abacus has 5 ones and 2 fives on each column as the old Chinese measure for weight is sixteen based. |
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Are you aware that Dr. Roger Sperry from the California Institute of Technology received a Nobel Prize for his work on the functioning of the brain’s hemispheres? |
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Are you aware that our right brain has a “high speed and high capacity” mechanism? |
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A contest was held on November 12, 1946 in Tokyo between a soroban (Japanese abacus) user Kiyoshi Matsuzaki, and an electric calculator, which was operated by US Army Private Thomas Nathan Wood. Speed and accuracy of the results were measured in all the four basic arithmetic operations along with a problem that uses all the four operations. The contest was won by the soroban by 4 to 1 while the electric calculator prevailed only in multiplication. |
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Abacus helps in inculcating the habit of careful observation, original thinking, sound reasoning, and optimum usage of multiple skills. |
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Abacus helps in enhancing and attaining lifetime skills such as Photographic memory, Self confidence, listening, Attentiveness, Imagination and focuses on attaining all round academic proficiency. |
