Monday, April 7, 1952 University Daily Kansan
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Design Makes A Difference But Human Element Remains
Modern design showed its superiority over old-fashioned methods in a contest between the two at the Engineering Exposition Satur-
*urday but there was a catch
The Albeneri trio will give a second concert at 8 p.m. tonight in Strong auditorium to close the Chamber Music series for the season.
Tickets are $1.53 tax included for the recital.
Albeneri Trio To Close Series
Major milestones in the trio's career are several transcontinental tours and performances of all the Beethoven trios in New York, Chicago, Washington (at the Library of Congress), at Princeton and Stanford universities.
The program will include Beethoven's trio in E flat, Opus 70, No. 2; the Martinu trio in D minor, and the Brahms trio in B major. Opus 8.
During the summers the group teaches and gives concerts at the Institute for Humanistic Studies in Aspen, Colo.
The trio's concert in Louisville, Ky., was voted the best of the season and the trio was selected the best chamber music group to appear in Louisville.
Plans have been made by the History club for a tour of nearby Kansas historical sites on Sunday afternoon, May 4.
History Club Plans To Tour Kansas
Nyle Miller, secretary of the Kansas State Historical society, led a discussion at the meeting on the preservation of historical sites after a film, "The Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg," was shown.
Places planned to be visited in the tour include the site of the Battle of Blackjack and other places of the battle, a view from the town, and Baldwin and scenes in the
life of John Brown, C. B. Realey,
professor of history, said James C.
Malin, professor of history, is
conducting the tour.
At the next meeting of the History club Wednesday, April 30, a panel discussion on "Imperialism" will be held.
A Friden 10-column electrical computing machine added 40 five-digit numbers two minutes quicker than a Japanese abacus, a beaded board used by Orientals in computation.
Isaac Namioka, graduate student,
added the figures in four minutes
and 50 seconds. Namioka, whose
home is in Himeji, Japan, said that
the only training he has had with
the abacus was in grade school.
The catch was that the electrical calculator was run by an experienced operator while the abacus was handled by an admitted amateur.
The abacus was used in ancient and medieval Europe and is used in many oriental countries today. The instrument is rectangular with a series of vertical bars containing circular beads. A horizontal bar extends across the upper half of the frame.
Five of these movable beads are situated beneath the horizontal bar, and two above. The upper two represent fives and tens. To add, the operator moves the beads up. When he reaches five, he moves the upper bead down, and replaces the unit beads. The vertical bars represent units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc.
Professor Scott said that under equal conditions, an abacus generally can add and subtract faster than a calculator. However, the calculator would probably win a test in division. As for multiplication, it's a toss-up.
Mrs. Robert Scott, wife of W. R. Scott, assistant professor of mathematics, totaled the column of figures in two minutes and 50 seconds. Mrs. Scott has had considerable experience with office machines.
In speed tests held in Japan immediately after the war, both the abacus and the adding machine were quicker, depending on the proficiency of the operators.
The abacus also can be used to square numbers, and to take square roots and cube roots of numbers. Experienced operators are very dexterous in moving the tiny beads up and down. Some operators, however, don't touch the board in their computation but visualize the procedure as they solve the problem mentally.
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