Americans Compete with Japanese Abacus

[Jojojojof]

Speedy? Have you seen the Japanese do this?

[TheRevolution2014]

Yea Foreal niggs !!

[suicidetru7h]

Egorapter

[TheOccurrences]

American wins contest.

Is Indian.

[movcrit]

I use an abacus; it's called Excel.

[TanziaLana]

I came from Egorapter... I mean Venusaur.

[Drigoroth]

@TanziaLana Haha same man, I got curious... I mean.. Ve.. Venusaur... question mark...

[VongolaBossTenth]

they all soooo slow

[FattyZee]

SIgh..egorapter brought me here, NOW I CANT STOP WATCHIN!!!!

[SlickEd91]

freakin egoraptor lol

[LemonTheMighty]

who else came from Egoraptor to the Japanese abacus then to this vid?

[VerWIN113]

@LemonTheMighty i did o.o

[ryukiren]

@LemonTheMighty same D:

[pat0dog]

@LemonTheMighty Yeah I did that brah

[RobotReg]

@LemonTheMighty I did too! LOL

[TheWorldofnoob]

@LemonTheMighty I did

[loves2doit]

@LemonTheMighty me 2 lmfao

[redlegend1972]

@LemonTheMighty lool i bet all 87,000 views came from him xD

[Skotoso]

@LemonTheMighty guilty

[teensinthemaking]

oh my gosh, they're so slow compared to the other video i just watched...

[TheCrackerBrony]

@teensinthemaking LOL i just saw that too

[originallove911]

I used to do this. went to school for that. and what happened ?how come those two of them had to being offense to the boy and what the hell are those recurity guys for ?Why she had to say his mother taking drugs ?! what have I saw just now. she needs a doctor.

[Mixikyr]

LOL @ the black girl speaking sorta japanese engrish

[DMSComedy]

@Mixikyr She is obviously is not black rather she is probably from the Philippines or southern Asia.

[PhantomLyric]

@DMSComedy She is quite obviously Blasian. Most likely black and japanese, possibly black and Filipino, but not southern asian. She lives on a U.S. Military base. Most likely her mother is black and her father is asian since her name is Love Lee.

[DMSComedy]

@PhantomLyric That is quite possible but I do know some Filipino and southern Asian girls that are pretty dark that are not biracial. But you are probably correct and you are correct about her speaking with a lisp

[PhantomLyric]

@DMSComedy I know what you mean. Her voice also gives her race away. Not that there is a way to talk any kind of race, but her voice is a bit husky... She could almost pass for a young Keyshia Cole (the singer) who is also biracial. .

[PhantomLyric]

@Mixikyr For one, she's obviously biracial. She is Japanese and black from the looks of it, not "southern asian as DMS presented. And she's not speaking Japanese "Engrish" she has a lisp.

[chickenbutteater]

the abacus isn't even japanese....

[VintageSnatchy]

@chickenbutteater that exact calculator id japanese. yes it comes from the chinese thingy, but that is the same as saying a car is from japan and not germany.. cus the first was made in germany.. i think but yeah u get what i mean

[Drhogbacko]

@VintageSnatchy funny how all americans need to justify something they didnt win at.. we know your culture is only some hundred years old. no need to compensate you know. we get it

[VintageSnatchy]

@Drhogbacko funny how its a month ago, and there are more smart americans than what ever you are and im not even american

[RabidNozomi]

Holy shit. I was there in like, 1999 or so. D: And I failed badly, because that woman started talking numbers really fucking fast.

[TheYounoob115]

who won america or japan

[HoSayLiaoLah]

The abacus can counts up to billions, not very useful if u want to calculate US debts.

[moonmanperez]

@HoSayLiaoLah LOL

[moonmanperez]

@HoSayLiaoLah Zing!

[zetalore]

@HoSayLiaoLah (presses like button)

[lemming124]

@RidgfieldRacer203 unnecessary

[cmysubscriptions]

@RidgfieldRacer203 Wow, that's racist

:|

[justforexperience]

00:36 "That's it, I'm going to win with this."

[CMEM1]

@ArterialSum1 LOL its funny how you just come up with blaming this on Obama .... your sad man ... wow

[prophetofreedom]

I actually like this idea a lot. The abacus can visual show mathematical principals while a computer only displays the answer while a teacher may or may not explain how the computer came up with the answer. Because of this mathematical principals become vague concepts and ideas that the student can not fully grasp because he/she can not apply them to real world problems.

[audi18ts]

i think abacus is invented by chinese.

[Ma7m9d]

@audi18ts

Abacus is Mesopotamian invention. i.e south Iraq , babylonians who invented first digital counting systems ever

[allrightbrain]

You know the japanese won,most americans are disapointing and retarded,also our educational system is embarrassing.

[dontbullshitus]

@allrightbrain that is completely right. That is nothing new though, Anglosaxons put themselves the badge of managers, but they have to hire the technical people from abroad. As Russia and China will not be giving their geniouses away (they were all traitors to their motherlands), America is bound to African standards, as represented by its Homo Erectus at the "white" house.

[FortheHorde1546]

@dontbullshitus You are completely wrong. Most of the developing countries in the world hire US engineers, scientists, and doctors for their development. The Chinese have repeated stolen development projects from us instead of doing their own research. You, I can tell, have underlying racist sentiments. The next two presidents (no matter who they are or what party) will have to play puppet to the PEOPLE because of what that fucking ELF Bush did to our system. Got to feed the Republican retards.

[DoomBrew420]

@FortheHorde1546 Scientific research is done to benefit the scientific community. Sharing and publicizing your information is probably the most important part of research in general. :)

[FortheHorde1546]

@DoomBrew420 You of course ignore the fact that most development projects are kept secret, if not monopolized, for the purpose of making money off of them. You can't ignore the fact that producing technology might have its la-dee-da's about helping the world and the scientific community... but your grants and funding sponsors have the ultimate say on how your work will be used.

[Quy4life]

@shadowgeyser never heard of vedic maths but if it better than using the calculator then anything goes!

[Quy4life]

i think people are getting dumber since we rely everything on the calculator. Kids nowadays dont' even know the multiplication table! We need to instill this sort of method if we want a future for our kids.

[BtiGold]

blue steel at 0:34

[ChopstickTech]

Baka gai jin!!!

[beyondsupreme]

abacus is the best mathmatics tool

[Th0usandMaster]

love at first sight! 0:25

[mrcyriljade]

Abacus was originated from china but not japan!

[yabakuro]

Soroban is actually Japanese traditional arithmetic so it's called "Japanese abacus".

We don't say its origin

[vidwatcher52]

1:01... lovelee

[omgstoptakingnames]

"fun way to calculate not like the calculator where you just push a few buttons"... well fuck this kid i would smoke him with my TI-83

[zooby1]

aye! but can u write 07734, 58008 or 5318008 on an abacus

[Toshirozawa]

Do these things just add/subtract or can you calculate, for example, compounding interest on a principal investment for X years?

[CHRISTMASBASTARD]

Does anyone know where I can purchase a Soroban? sorry to sound like an ignorant tourist its just that I have tried ripping up bits of paper and sliding them across the table but it just gets a bit messy and I need something that replicates this number analogy with easy use at the least.

[aaronomy]

@CHRISTMASBASTARD

I just bought one on ebay for 6 bucks. There's plenty of chinese wholesalers there with cheap abacuses.

[CHRISTMASBASTARD]

@aaronomy Cheers I got one now though for £9 off Ebay too and its pretty good with 17 places but I hope to get an even bigger one in future or stack loads together to calculate astronomical numbers. Harder the practise the better the results. How many places does yours go?

[aaronomy]

@CHRISTMASBASTARD

Mine is only 12 places, with only one bead in the "heaven" part. I'm still getting the hang of doing simple calculations, so I think 12 places will do fine for now. Cheers!

[pankajsinghvi]

Abacus is cool way of learning basic maths.. It's new learning, its accurate, it exercises your brain and way to impress your friends..

There is a line way also of doing maths, check tht out ..

[irishblood6355]

My differential equations prof used to quote Leibniz all the time... "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be safely relegated to anyone else if machines were used."

[irishblood6355]

We used Maple primarily instead of wasting time with the arithmetic between steps.

[gaiuskaiser]

western europeans are clearly superior to communist from the far east

[chris3145]

Yes, a TI-89 is better when it comes to evaluating integrals, but if you just want to do the four basic arithmetic operations on large numbers, there's a video of 12 year olds on abacuses who are faster than anything I've ever seen. It's quicker than typing it into a calculator or using pencil & paper.

Look at the "Amazing Abacus Math Video"

(And yes, abacuses is the correct plural)

[healaryclenton]

teach them matlab instead of this

[pnexpers]

indeed. while i think it's a pretty cool thing to use as a way of learning math/ number theory, it's usage in more practical matters has long since passed. i can see a trained accountant in a small business doing ok with this but in the digital age it'd take thousands of top notch bead counters working 24/7 to match the raw calculating power of a single financial transaction server.

[TENNSUMITSUMA]

yeah abacus vs ti-89

[Alillan]

After all, using electric calculators in primary schools wouldn't be any good for children.

[nippononna]

Using the abacus is good for stimulating & improving children's the frontal lobe...

[chibirobo009]

is the japanese abacus the same as the chinese?

like how is it different

[nickxyzt]

It is different. Chinese abacus (suan pan) uses base 16 (like computers). Japanese abacus (soroban) uses base 10. Is is faster, and the beads are different.

[5687678]

The top two bead above the divide is not used unless it's used as a place holder of zeros (to make it look organized) or counting by 10s or in a often case only one bead is used as a five, the bottom five beads was used with one top bead to ensure the ten was accounted for before moving up a place, the extra bead on the bottom was used reduce user mistake so in reality Chinese abacus is also base on 10. During use the extra beads on top and bottom simplifies data presentation.

[HdBurningblade]

Abacuses originated from China.

[BloodFeather]

*indo-china.

[TheKevinGOGO]

@HdBurningblade

.....thats not the point of this video......

[marcusjhung]

umm no... the abacus beats out the calculator in both speed and acuracy. No competition.

[lightyagarmi]

depends if youre skilled at it or not......

[bigbuggie5]

Can the abacus do all the functions of a calculator??

[QuantumDouche]

Are you stupid?

[MinaICCS]

Yes it can, provided you get a big-enough one. The more rods it has, the more types of mathematics you can complete on it. For typical usage, however, an 11, or 13, or 15 rod will probably be enough.

[nutherefurlong]

Depends on the calculator :)

Anyway, that's what a slide rule is for :)

[joshyd77]

Lmao at 1:02 ... lol her name is love lee ...

[ThaduisMallowmare]

Lol sometimes the abacus is faster than using the calculator.

[kicknbazz1615]

Pshh if i had a caculator id would all those kids!!! haha jk

[Chilledtea]

@kicknbazz1615Haha, I wonder why :)

[hapaxjalapenox]

we had to learn how to use those in my school, too. lived in oki japan on base. :/ never really was that good at the abacus. sort of hated it

[HelloTherefromSamoa]

That was awesome...Me being Asian and all eh...

[albomale]

This is great and all, but Ill take my good ol' calculator to any exam over this "beautiful" gadget.

[allgoo19]

One of the skill they learn is called "Anzan" which means make a calculation in your head using imaginary abacus.

Once you see the high level competition, you'll amazed by the speed and the accuracy. There are times use of calculator is not allowed in the exam room but they can't stop you from imaginary abacas.

You don't always have a calculator handy but you always carry your head. ^_^

[cmmnsense]

What else can it be used for except addition?

[allgoo19]

Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing are the basics, with and without using abacus.

In the school, they teach minimal skill of those 4 elements. Many students take a private class called "Soroban Juku". They'll learn calculation in larger numbers and higher speed in those classes.

[edv11nas]

strange :) why the hell we create technologies then?

[hitachiota]

so?

[uknol]

so they japanese shouldnt just propagate 'ancient japanese abacus', sounds like they own this,they r the inventor.

[tewi2222]

who cares?

there is a diffrence between japanese abacus and ANCIENT chinese abacus.

china's invention? huh?lol

[sean6201]

I'll give you guys abacus it's fine, we have better and more inventions than you guys thesedays anyways. take the abacus with you

[amsd1231]

if you are talking about the very first one to invent the concept it is the mesopotamians, but there are different versions all around the world. china invented many things but this is not one of them.

[theman0818]

yea it pisses me off when they specify something to a certain country when it is used throughout a whole continent

[tyuo9980]

its pronounced sow low baa n

[McLarensupporter]

LOL at the girl called 'Love Lee'...Lovely...

[canitube1]

it's not hard ... its just practice ...and practice .... and more practice

[uthlak]

lol how can this be a competition, they are flicking the beads like once every 3 seconds XD

[PooJiraiya]

wurd

[allthepeeps]

how does it work?? and how do they have competitions?? i don't get it but i bet those kids are like geniuses anyways

[Chicken10843]

Which air base?

[X666Metal666X]

looks hard!

[lkooe]

Shore it is only you would think That this looks hard easy way to easy.

[dcrussell1]

you must not be accustomed to using your brain