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THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1961.

ABACUS BEATS ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS

Singapore, Feb. 21.

The humble abacus has beaten modern mechanised and electric adding machines in speed calculation tests here. Descendant of the bead frames and counting boards developed by the ancient Egyptian and Chinese cultures it held its own against the latest in computers from Europe.

The $2 wood and bamboo The Chinese abacus has ve counting device was pitted beads for unita with two in against expensive machines in an upper section for fives. It a contest arranged by the bus varles from the Jzpanese nora magazine. "Singapore vailety (the Scrobin) which Trade."

has four unit bends and only

In addition, the abacus was one row of "Ave" beads. faster than the hand-operated "It is easy to learn how to machine. But it lost to there ca abacus." gays Bel. "But glectric device, In multiplention It takes yours to work

Up It was speedier than the hand-speed," operated machine and equal to Complicated calculations 1- the electric. In division i beat volving large numbers call for the vetric computer twice out coreldërable mental elfort, of three times.

however, he concedes.

In Hongkong

The abacus was operated by} Bel Po-lu, a fast operator who modestly does not even claim to be Singapore's best.

Decline

This is probably the main factor in the decline in use of the device among the modern

Sir Laurence's wedding date

London, Feb. 21.

Sir Laurence Olivier and actress Joan Plowright 'probably will marry in the United States this

summer.

JOAN PLOWRIGHT

Miss Plowright's father, news- paper editor William Plowright. today this would be his best guess.

He heard from his daughter "a week, or two ago."

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"They'll certainly want Gulet wedding," he said, "I'm sure they do not want any furs and they'll not be disclosing the date or the place.

"There were several radio re- ports in the United States that they were already married," he said. "That simply could not be,"

Plowright explained that Siri Laurence's decres of divorce from actress Vivien Leigh does · not become Anal until March 4.

Sir Laurence is appearing in "Becket" and Mira Plowright in "A Taste of Honey" on the Broadway ringe,

"Her play la running the full season," her failer said,

generation of Chinese, Few FOUR IN GANG June, It's common knowledge

Bel learned the art of the Chinese schools in the Far East abucur at school in Shanghai, | leach the abacus as part of the He used it in American In- mathematics course. ternational Assurance Co. Old Chinere look with pits offices in Shanghai and Hong-at the trend towards modernism konj. In Singapore he still in accounting among Chinese, prefers it to the machine.

But some feel the abacus with its simplicity and versalf- ity will always have its sup

Here are examples of times turned in by the anelent and modern counting devices;

porters.

C. C. Chung, who has writ- ten the only book in English

In addition of 20 8gures of three to five digits, the abacus Anished in 41.3 sees, the hand- | un operation of the abacus, valls operated machine in 49.8 secs, the device cheap, fast and not the electric machine in 28 sees, subject to breakdown.

In multiplication of four digit Agures by four-digit Agures, the abacus finished in 14 sces, the hand machine in

43 secs, and the electric com- puter in 10.2 secs.

800 years old

In a recond problem the abaeus turned in a time of 13.1 secs compared to 10.2 for the electric machine, whose opera- tor had to compensate for one In a third trial the error. abacus won by 11.1 seconds to 11.2 for the electrie computer.

The sets divided 319.708 by 840 in 118 reconds, while the electric device did it in 11.2. secs. It divided 2,644,035 by 1,077 in 10.3 seconds compared to 13 seconds for the electric: computer, and 759,213 by 300

Honourable

He published his "Chinese Abacus Calculator" in Manila

TO BE CANED

FOR ROBBERY

"That means until the end of

they wish to be married and it would be after that,"

Miro Plowright, 29. Was named In the divorce

case

brought by Miss Leigh after 20

years of marriage to the 43- year-old King of the London

Five boys ganged up against ¦ Theatre.—AP."

another boy in on alloy

in Queen's-road West on Feb. 5 and robbed the boy of $2, Mr D. Benson was told at the Juvenile Court in Causeway Bay this morning.

The five boys

whose ages

in 1850 and now plans a mathe-ranged from 11 to 14 pleaded matics course in English which guilty to a charge of robbery will include instructions On by two or more. operation of the Abacus.

The first four boys were sen- The Chinese abbeus has an tenced to Elx months in the honourable hlstery going back juvenile remand home and also many hundred years," he says, received four strokes DI the "It would, be a great shame cane. The last boy was Tên if it were to die out, expectal-manded to March 1 for a pro- ly as it is so easy to learn to bation officer's report. use."-AP.

Application THREE HURT

Britain's Diplomatie

in

ASCAR HITS

LAMP POLE

Nicosia, Fel 21.

Repre- In 10.1 seconds compared to the Fentative

Cyprus, Mr electric, machine's 11.2 seconds. W. A. W. Clark, left by air for Developed in China about 800 London today with the Cypres years ago, the abacus is known | republic's application for

the Shan-pan or calculating memberthip of the Common-injured when the car in which

board.

wealth.-China Mail Special,

Letters from you to the editor

Newspaper history

dear sir.

I feel I should correct some of the statements of my friend Mr John Luff. In his reference to the China Mail and its con- temporaries-especially the South China Morning Post. Mr Luf laten: "At the begin- ning of this century, the South China Morning Post came into being. A large subscription of capital, up-to-date equipment. and certain privileges placed It to the fore, The China Mail staggered along but kept its paper going. All its contempor- ary rivals had fallen by the Way."

Permit me to reply:

1. The subscription of capital to the South China Morning Post Ltd was not large. In 1916. It WAS $150,000 in 6.000 shares of $25 each.

2. Its equipment was only re- latively up to date. It had a Wharfdale type press that printed four pages at a time

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3.

A man and twa women were

they were travelling collided with a lamp pole at Wylie-road near the L Ping Memorial School, at about 9.30 am. yes- terday (Tuesday). The injured man, Kok Man-chao, and the two women. Kok Kwan Siu-han and Lam Wal-fang. were ad- mitted to Kowloon Hospital.

Left in a bus

Any person who these articles and cash should has lost communicate with the Divisional Superintendent, Yaumati Police

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Ceylon's PM threatens dissolution

Colombo, Feb, 21. Prime Minister Mre Sirima Bandaranaike to-- day

warned Government Party members that she will expel from the party any that voted against the Government on a motion of no-conâdence now be- Log debated in the Lower House.

In the event of dis- obedience, she added, she also would have no hesita- tion in recommending dis- solving of Parliament and calling for new national elections.

No-confidence voic ta

connected with failure to Immediately deprive of their civil righis a group of Parilament members found guilty recently of Bribery and corruption.- UPI.

Drug packets man jailed

Chu Chung-chuen, a 44-year- old coolie, living at 146. Percl- val-street, first floor, was sen tenced to three years' Jall by Mr T. L. Yong at Causeway Bay Court this morning for posses-

man of more than 130 packets of dangerous drugs,

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The Police are seeking the Bingle-magazine linotypes, of owner of $800 in cash, two gold which, however, only two were finger-rings and some documents in use, the other twe kept which were found unclaimed in

The Post had no privileges last year, "in reserve",

a bus in Kowloon on October 23 Ha rival, the long-established Mongkong Dally Press, was favoured by both the Govern- ment and the "upper crust The Press WAN called "the Peak paper", read by "the peo- ple who had the purchasing power and It was regarded by His readers as having semi- oficial status. It was better staЛed, and for some years was the belter paper. The circula- fion of the Post in 1910 was about 600, and of the Press a little more than that. From its launching in 1903, the Post had a hard struggle; and in justice to George Lloyd, Tom Petrie. Ben Wylie and the rest who worked so falthfully to establish it, the perspective should be preserved. If the Post had one unfair advantage, -DRING THE WHOLE FAMILY perhaps this was that it em- ployed so many Beats, which assured it of the support of the dock and shipping staffs. The Dally Press, on the other hand, was so very English. Mr Luft is unjust also in his

statement that all the contem- porary rivals of the China Mail had fallen by the way. The Hongkong Telegraph, not quilo us old ki the Mall, ofter- ed it quite ilvely competition and suspended publication only because Its proprietors. SCM Post Lid... bought the China Mail, after the scoond World War.

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