It has been there for a while. I think that their IT depaertment is cliaming to have invented the abacus.
Spotted during a visit Friday afternoon:
This is sort of like those New Yorker cartoons where you have to submit a caption for, except there's probably more funny things to say.
-Boyce
It has been there for a while. I think that their IT depaertment is cliaming to have invented the abacus.
Weird to go to all that trouble to build a giant abacus and then not display it right side up.
Uh, actually the abacus is right side up. My dad taught me to use an abacus in elementary school (something he learned in elementary school) and it's definitely not upside down. Now, they are missing a set of beads on both the top and bottom. It should have 2 beads on the top and five beads on the bottom. They help facilitate carrying during addition.
Given the thread title, I was expecting a picture of Ivory Latta.Bizarre Object Found on UNC Campus: Explanation Needed
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No,it's to celebrate the Helms Foundation decision that UNC had invented the abacus.
that is a japanesse abacus
http://webhome.idirect.com/~totton/abacus/pages.htm
here is a simple explanation if you are dont want the trouble of clicking the link
The Japanese Soroban
so the unc IT dept invented the japanese abacus. how cool is that!
Ah, that explains it. I learned on the Chinese abacus. My bad, I just assumed that they were all alike since I had seen a Russian one years ago and I remember it as being the same as the Chinese abacus. Thanks and sorry about that. As an aside I don't think it really matters where the units bar starts. The one my dad had used a metal bar to denote the units place. And it had about 5 or 6 rows to the right of it.