TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 22, 1949
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN. LAWRENCE. KANSAS
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Korean Wizard Adds Twice As Fast As A Machine
New York—(U,P)—Pai Sung Jin can add a column of numbers taller and wider than himself faster than the average computer can tally a bridge score.
Pai is a Korean mental wizard just arrived in this country, who astounded American adding machine experts in Korea last year by adding a breathing any given combi $ \textcircled{c} $
and subtracting any given combination of figures $21\frac{1}{2}$ times faster than an adding machine or an abacus, all in his head.
Pai says his system is really quite simple. All he does is translate mentally a number into a Korean phonetic "word," add up the words in his head, re-translate the answer back into a number and write it down. It took him 13 years to work out his formula, but the little Korean claims he can teach it to anyone in two hours.
For example, Pai can add a column of figures eleven across and ten deep in 15 seconds. He looks at the column intently, blinks once or twice, then scribbles the entire correct answer from left to right, in contrast to the average dullard who has to sweat over a row one digit at a time from right to left.
The occasion in Korea a year ago which brought Pai's uncanny ability to light up place at a contest between two American adding machine experts, seven Korean abacus champions and Pai. The Americans and the seven Koreans ended up in a draw, but at the final count, Pai had accurately performed his arithmetic, $2\frac{1}{2}$ times faster than all the rest. The contest was sponsored by the 24th American Army Corps.
Pai is manager of a drug company in Korea, but before that he worked as a bank inspector and as a lecturer on higher commercial mathematics for the Korean ministry of finance. Pai also is the author of three text books on calculating, bank management and costing.
The Korean sponsored his own trip to the United States and wants to
tour American colleges and universities to try and convince educators that his system is superior to and more practical than any now in use.
At the moment, Pai can only add and subtract with his system, but he is working on a method to be able to multiply and divide with it, too.
ASME Host For Meeting
Harry L. Daasch, professor of mechanical engineering, told the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recently about the regional meeting of A.S.M.E. to be held May 6-7 at the University.
Technical papers will be presented orally at the meeting and judged on the basis of uniqueness, mechanics or presentation. Proofs bers were urged, towork on proje
The regional meeting awards cash prizes from $10 to $50 for winning papers.
Professor Daasch said, "This offers more than academic advantages. It will enable you as prospective engineers to meet men from the active professional field."
John Robb, engineering junior,
was elected secretary of the group.
Tentative plans were made for a smoker March 3.
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KU Hills Look Like Bohemia To Czechoslovakian Exile
This campus has a variety of Smiths and Jones, but it has only one Odlozilik. This name of Slavic origin belongs to a professor in the history department who is romantically classed as a Czechoslovakian exile.
Otkar Odlozilik, a visiting professor this semester, said that K.U. reminds him of Bohemia with its rolling hills. He is looking forward "to warmer and clearer days for hiking." $ \textcircled{4} $
reminds him of Bohemia with no warmer and clearer days for hiking." Mr. Odzilokli believes the Czechoslovakian schools "leave more initiative with the students." They are fewer tests, no fraternities or sororites and students, as well as the schools, are scattered over the city. He believes that students tend to be more individualistic.
He is not a newcomer to the United States or this section of the country. His first visit was in 1939 when he left his native Prague to teach at Colorado university. The German invasion provided the motive for his departure.
At the close of the war. Mr. Odlozilik returned to Czechoslovakia to
teach at Charles university in Prauge. However his homecoming did not last long because he "anticipated the growing restrictions of academic freedom in Czechoslovakia."
Mr. Odiozilik, who is a veteran of World War I and a graduate of Charles university, has spent much of his time in New York City while in the United States. He describes it as "not quite typical of the United States because it is a line between the old and new world."
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