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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KSpread's icon...
From:       "Tom Hoferek" <tomh () corel ! com>
Date:       2001-01-29 20:21:18
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I believe its true, though maybe not very common. I saw a program, it was a few
years ago so the details are sketchy, where university students somewhere in Asia
were filmed performing very complex calculations without calculators during some
sort of examination. What was really amazing was that they were using the
principles of the abacus without actually having one in front of them. They just
visualized it in front of them and most of them actually moved there hands in front
of them as if the abacus were actually there. It was incredible to see. The while
point of the program was to show how these students could perform these
calculations as fast, if not faster than someone using a calclator.

Cheers,

Tom

John Summerfield wrote:

> Friedrich.W.H@Kossebau.de said:
> > I just remembered a rumor: There are people still today who do even
> > complicated calculations by an abacus quicker than somebody by his
> > electronic pocket calculator. But these are surely very seldom ;)
>
> Can anyone from Hong Kong confirm or deny this?
>
> --
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> John Summerfield
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