Calculator Sticks from the 1600s

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  • @ChrisStaecker
    @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому +7

    Related videos:
    RETORTS! I respond to my favorite comments from this video: ua-cam.com/video/VxXq06oDc6Y/v-deo.html
    Numbring Nines Rods- a variation from 1684: ua-cam.com/video/FhL8QXJGZMY/v-deo.html
    Genaille Rods- a variation from 1891: ua-cam.com/video/JCUPFZ0iH_s/v-deo.html
    Napier's location arithmetic board- a binary multiplier published in the same book as the bones: ua-cam.com/video/tVoMdddBQ5k/v-deo.html

  • @brianjones9780
    @brianjones9780 2 роки тому +1836

    The way he says "the bones" is one of a kind

    • @cavemanooga
      @cavemanooga 2 роки тому +77

      Came into the comments just to say I like the way he says bones

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому +158

      Doesn't everybody say it like that?

    • @nubidubi23
      @nubidubi23 2 роки тому +120

      @@ChrisStaecker bawwwwns (no)

    • @ARCtrooper8248
      @ARCtrooper8248 2 роки тому +14

      Almost like 'Billy bones'

    • @cl-l_m5022
      @cl-l_m5022 2 роки тому +33

      Me say "Booouuuaans"

  • @matthewrooke819
    @matthewrooke819 2 роки тому +1008

    Small things like this are what medieval/fantasy films are missing.

    • @gokul_ml
      @gokul_ml 2 роки тому +100

      Yeah, the authenticity ... In avatar, Navis had eight fingers. So their number system was base 8.

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому +122

      I have never seen Napier's bones used in a film. Get on that, Hollywood!

    • @DieselpunkMachine
      @DieselpunkMachine 2 роки тому +17

      maybe real people were much smarter than movie makers?

    • @edwardmaginot
      @edwardmaginot 2 роки тому +11

      Not appropriate for medieval settings at all.
      It's largely an Early Modern thing from when there were intellectuals not necessarily part of a clergy, and after getting access to islamic knowledges. Two things not even close to relevant to Middle Ages.

    • @mondaysinsanity8193
      @mondaysinsanity8193 2 роки тому +8

      @@edwardmaginot um...mideavil isnt just europe js. Also banks existed since the crusades atleast which this is def a banker kinda thing

  • @Mural
    @Mural 2 роки тому +385

    You got a real good giggle out of me with the calculator.

  • @TheBookDoctor
    @TheBookDoctor 2 роки тому +802

    Awesome. I never understood how Napier's Bones worked, but this makes it super clear and super obvious. The connection to lattice multiplication is excellent too.

    • @Anti-Alphabet_Mafia
      @Anti-Alphabet_Mafia 2 роки тому

      You know what I say? Screw math. Math can suck my clit, my nuts, my nipples, and my ass.

    • @KujiraFEl
      @KujiraFEl 2 роки тому +1

      i can't understand a thing, it easier to learn another language, then math for me, it never was my thing you know

  • @AliceTheNeko
    @AliceTheNeko 2 роки тому +358

    Seeing these awakened long-buried memories in me of elementary school. I don't think we had these in particular, but we had similar things. I remember long, flat plastic rods with numbers along the side next to notches in the side that a small string would nest in as you wrapped and weaved it around the rod.

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому +61

      Yes- those are “math wraps”! They don’t calculate for you, but you do a bunch of calculations as you wrap it up and then the string lets you check the answer.

    • @MurakenToo
      @MurakenToo 2 роки тому +7

      We had those back in the early 2000's in the school I went to here in Sweden :)
      I wonder if they're still used nowadays or if they've been replaced by electronics.

    • @Not_An_EV
      @Not_An_EV 2 роки тому +1

      @Get on the cross and don’t look back shoo shoo go away shoo

  • @d_1044
    @d_1044 2 роки тому +274

    I like that you not only explain this interesting mathematical object but tell us how to use it and that the Home Depot people will get suspicious of you ask for too many free materials

  • @jingusflorpus4274
    @jingusflorpus4274 2 роки тому +90

    I learned lattice multiplication in school and it’s actually been my preferred method to multiply since third grade, so I recognized it on the bones immediately and felt extremely vindicated when you confirmed it for me later lol

  • @adrianbilodeau1241
    @adrianbilodeau1241 2 роки тому +101

    I never learned how and abacus worked until now… it’s actually quite beautiful in its own way.

  • @JustSway
    @JustSway 2 роки тому +127

    I actually like that. I wish in history class they would teach us some older stuff like this... "evolution of math", instead of going over the same history we have been and barely adding anything new. Honestly, I can learn more about History on the internet than my High School history class.

    • @cracno1125
      @cracno1125 2 роки тому +3

      Remember, History class is usually a summary of the History of your country. Which society at large feels you should know as a citizen of X country.
      But don't worry. You can still learn more at home! I suggest you looking for trust worthy books on various historical subjects. You might even have a few at your school's library. Otherwise, order them at a public library or order them online.

    • @JustSway
      @JustSway 2 роки тому

      @@cracno1125 School is out of the picture as of now. High school graduate. I am currently working a factory job so any knowledge of history I would have to do online anyways.

    • @cracno1125
      @cracno1125 2 роки тому

      @@JustSway Why so?

    • @JustSway
      @JustSway 2 роки тому

      @@cracno1125 I am trying to control my spending habits and I work at a factory. I also said "as of now", I still have potential of going to a good school.

    • @cracno1125
      @cracno1125 2 роки тому

      @@JustSway Ok, that's cool. Remember, it's one's goal to enrich oneself in this life before going unto the next alongside Christ.

  • @rebucato3142
    @rebucato3142 2 роки тому +57

    Seeing that you mentioned the abacus at the end, I think the Chinese/Japanese abacuses (?) are also worth talking about. Instead of using rows of 10 beads, they use columns of 5/7 beads separated by a bar in the middle, with the top beads representing a value of 5 and the bottom beads representing 1. A lot of children in Japan still learn to use the abacus, and both the Chinese and Japanese have used it to take mental calculations to the next level (6-digit multiplications in their head).

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому +16

      I featured the Japanese abacus in this video: ua-cam.com/video/FetVWSsj77M/v-deo.html

    • @rebucato3142
      @rebucato3142 2 роки тому +10

      @@ChrisStaecker Yeah I realised that after going through your videos a bit more. Thanks for taking the time to respond though!

  • @tonyennis1787
    @tonyennis1787 2 роки тому +95

    The Japanese abacus is awesome. Check out videos of them using it. They are amazing. You can also be very good on the Japanese abacus and not know how to add. It's all about patterns.

    • @SillyOmega
      @SillyOmega 2 роки тому +2

      Abacus are Awesome as Well.

  • @austinevs
    @austinevs 2 роки тому +15

    The way he said "They get suspicious" at the end is kind of hilarious when you try and come up with a visual image of a home depot employee thinking what kind of nefarious things are you doing with paint sticks.

  • @tenofhearts99
    @tenofhearts99 2 роки тому +56

    I used the lattice method all through school, I couldn't long multiply any other way and I still can't long divide. I always wondered if there was a whole school of thought in math that was like the lattice method. That drawn out grid helped me out so much as a person who is hands-on but I failed at math and nothing else was like the lattice method to me.

    • @zubirhusein
      @zubirhusein 2 роки тому +5

      Same, lattice is how my primary school teacher taught.
      If I don't do the lattice method, I do another method where I split up one of the operands by tens place.
      So 1234*1234 becomes 1234*1000 + 1234*200 + 1234*30 + 1234*4

    • @mujipanda1947
      @mujipanda1947 2 роки тому +2

      my school did not teach it but I used that method as I found it better

    • @layleedayne4772
      @layleedayne4772 2 роки тому +3

      Same. My teachers hated grading my tests and homework when you have to show your work. And I had cubes with numbers and slashes all over my papers. They also work really nicely for decimal point multiplication as well.

    • @zubirhusein
      @zubirhusein 2 роки тому

      @@layleedayne4772 oh yes true, makes it easy

    • @miradesnan38
      @miradesnan38 2 роки тому +1

      I would like teachers to teach this method when they see a child struggling with the usual way to calculate.
      But strange enough most teachers will give you less points on a right answer if the way you got this answer is not exactly the same way they teached!
      Isn't this totally wrong?

  • @f3player
    @f3player 2 роки тому +45

    "Wanna use my calculator?"
    Nah, i got the bones

  • @krishnachoubey8648
    @krishnachoubey8648 2 роки тому +15

    Maths Teacher : Why did you bring "Ice-Cream Sticks" to the examination hall?
    Me : *"My goals are beyond your understanding"*

    • @pipespb
      @pipespb 2 роки тому

      Мы в школе сдавали экзамены на счетной (логарифмической) линейке.
      ua-cam.com/video/8MtMZv6Uluc/v-deo.html

  • @themaddtatter6679
    @themaddtatter6679 2 роки тому +14

    Love that "Ah-ha" (eureka) moment when you explained how to do the lattice method! Makes super sense and saves a TON of space. Can't wait to show my 13 year old who loves math as much as I do! Thankyou for sharing this!

  • @jeremyrutenberg7087
    @jeremyrutenberg7087 6 років тому +64

    This guy makes me laugh out loud I love it

  • @B1Boomer
    @B1Boomer 2 роки тому +7

    I did not realize it at the time, but my 5th-grade teacher taught us lattice multiplication to demonstrate the fun of mathematics.

  • @jacklimestone2559
    @jacklimestone2559 2 роки тому +4

    One of my first comp sci projects in college was making some of these out of cardboard and photographing me using them. What an odd professor, but he got the point across well.

  • @Stranger_Strange_Land
    @Stranger_Strange_Land 2 роки тому +9

    This is a prime example of how techniques/formulas have changed over time.
    Each generation seems to have been taught a different way to find the answer to math problems.
    A lot of them over complicate it, confusing people and making people, like me, _hate_ math....
    This is really neat!

  • @benjaminchance3311
    @benjaminchance3311 2 роки тому +6

    if you put the smaller number on the right side you can also put decimals and get pretty accurate percentages. sometimes it can take some guessing to get the right decimal place in your answer.

  • @TroutBoneless
    @TroutBoneless 2 роки тому +1

    The personality on display here is captivating. That Burroughs calculator bit was a 10/10

  • @sharishth
    @sharishth 2 роки тому +2

    I remember at studying this school text book under computer subject. With just a picture and a paragraph, happy to see after so many years someone showed us this calculator.

  • @katenapier5477
    @katenapier5477 2 роки тому +3

    John Napier: *invents extensive multiplication tools*
    Me, a distant relative: *traumatic war flashbacks of memorizing multiplication facts in 3rd grade*

  • @Ten_522
    @Ten_522 2 роки тому +1

    The intro background music made medieval calculators sound as sick as a skateboarding ad.

  • @Skeeter51244
    @Skeeter51244 2 роки тому +4

    I began a career i8n surveying in the early 1960's, several years before electronic calculators were available. Each field crew had at least one Curta mechanical calculator. If you can put your hands on one, I think many of your viewers would find it interesting.

  • @Southern.Nappiness
    @Southern.Nappiness 2 роки тому

    Your voice is very soothing. We learned about Napier Bones and abacus in history class in middle school. That's when they really taught history.🙂🙂

  • @1Isardo
    @1Isardo 2 роки тому +3

    I love how the bones are just the times tables for each number

  • @bennapier9260
    @bennapier9260 2 роки тому +6

    John Napier was my ancestor. Everyone in my family has a gift for math.

  • @TheDitronik
    @TheDitronik 2 роки тому +10

    The form of multiplication was used in the 1202 Liber Abaci and 800 AD Islamic
    mathematics and known under the name of lattice multiplication. "Crest of the
    Peacock", by G.G, Joseph, suggests that Napier learned the details of this method
    from "Treviso Arithmetic", written in 1478.

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому +5

      Yes I mentioned lattice multiplication around 2:50.

  • @michaelrabich9635
    @michaelrabich9635 4 роки тому +12

    I watched a lot of your videos, amazing stuff. Napier was the man

  • @petermach8635
    @petermach8635 2 роки тому +1

    Ha ...... not just the 1600's, I learnt to use them at school in Edinburgh in the 1960's along with slide rules. Mind you, that was just down the road from Merchiston Castle, the family home of the Napiers.

  • @Adamkilla9000
    @Adamkilla9000 2 роки тому +1

    The most chill mathematician

  • @christinageraci9172
    @christinageraci9172 7 років тому +93

    This channel is really cool. Definitely deserves more subs... and hoagies.

  • @VAM_Physics_and_Engineering
    @VAM_Physics_and_Engineering 2 роки тому +5

    Never seen or heard of this before. I thoroughly enjoyed this... Well done!

  • @carriebishop8838
    @carriebishop8838 2 роки тому +1

    Every Math teacher needs to refer their students to your videos

  • @never-mind26
    @never-mind26 2 роки тому

    Whoever you are, thank you for giving me something to do with my kid that's fun and pedagogic at the same time.

  • @littlelyra754
    @littlelyra754 2 роки тому +2

    I have often used the lattice method since I learned it in elementary school, but after elementary school and I got a bit older, I used it in my scratch paper that I had to turn in for proof that I did the work, and the teacher was like “what is this?” And I got points counted off for it. I tried telling them what it was and they said they’d never heard of it. Smartphones weren’t common at the time, so I couldn’t just Google it and show them. Then I started asking other people and they had no idea what I was talking about, even when I wrote it down and showed them. For years I started thinking I was just crazy and had made it up in my head or something, but I kept using it because it worked. Now I know I’m not crazy, those other people were just dumb or forgot about it.

  • @smexijebus
    @smexijebus 2 роки тому

    Wow, I spent a few years learning the Chinese abacus in my youth, got really quite fast at it, then never used it again and up until your demonstration, I had quite literally forgotten how it even worked. Kid me seemed like magic for most of my adult life.

  • @Lex60
    @Lex60 2 роки тому +1

    My uncle did business with Chinese people in the mid-'30s and he told us how they used abacus in a very expert and quick way. Never had a problem.

  • @juanjosemendivil1626
    @juanjosemendivil1626 2 роки тому +2

    I didn't recognize the formula until he draw the box, I was stunned I was using it the whole time.

  • @hopefletcher7420
    @hopefletcher7420 2 роки тому

    When I was in high school in the 1960s they still taught how to use a sliderule for the advanced students. In my first job in the 1970s I used the old manual calculator that had rows of numbers to punch.

  • @laurenkalibat357
    @laurenkalibat357 2 роки тому

    Napier's Bones are a great teaching tool. I used them in the classroom many years ago.

  • @CheaddakerT.Snodgrass
    @CheaddakerT.Snodgrass 2 роки тому

    Great. Just great. I'm randomly suggested this video. Now I have to watch more.
    Real great.

    • @CheaddakerT.Snodgrass
      @CheaddakerT.Snodgrass 2 роки тому

      In all seriousness those are really cool.
      Imagine if kids were taught how to use those before learning how to do math with a pencil. I feel like they would expand the mind.

  • @J3rs3y_G1rl
    @J3rs3y_G1rl 2 роки тому

    I learned so many methods of calculation today thanks to you. Much obliged.

  • @abigbutterstick1780
    @abigbutterstick1780 2 роки тому

    Where is that music in the beginning from?

  • @anthonywatts2033
    @anthonywatts2033 2 роки тому

    One: you accent is awesome! Two: the bones...brilliant. I am just so glad the electronic calculator was invented by the time I came around....

  • @knessing7681
    @knessing7681 2 роки тому

    3:27 you're missing a 3rd way of doing it ... it's cross between the two method (the way I learnt it) 3x5 = 15 you keep the 5, then put the 1 (or any digits after the first) up in the corner, then 3x2 = 6 then you add the corner number written to the 6 for 7

  • @bmanpura
    @bmanpura 2 роки тому +2

    I learned the abacus as a child, this thing is faster in operation speed but it needs time to setup. Plus, it can be arbitrary length - abacus is kinda limited and really unwieldy.
    Good abacus operator can calculate really fast and with enough practice, it's muscle memory.
    I wonder how fast can the calculation be if people practice using this enough.

  • @yee9167
    @yee9167 2 роки тому +3

    I remember that my 3rd grade teacher taught my class how to make these: I completely forgot how, until now.

  • @Delicate_Disaster
    @Delicate_Disaster 2 роки тому

    I've never seen this page, but I like it based off of this video. Especially The calculator part.

  • @Jcorella
    @Jcorella 2 роки тому

    How happy you were with your big calculator made me happy.

  • @softcloudx7240
    @softcloudx7240 2 роки тому +1

    In my school system we actually learn multiplication using the lattice method! We get taught the older method and the lattice so we could use what works best for us

  • @deanciaciura3153
    @deanciaciura3153 2 роки тому +1

    I'm related to John Napier and I think this is the first time I've learned anything about him besides from family

  • @traceyp6199
    @traceyp6199 2 роки тому

    Really good going to try to remember these techniques for my kids. The grid will really help. But only negative is the music is louder than the vocals and makes it a little hard to hear

  • @6stringgunner511
    @6stringgunner511 2 роки тому +1

    You didn't put stick #6 out there for us to see. I have ALL copied , with the exception of #6.

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому

      Follow the link in the description- I’ve got printable PDFs.

  • @user-ho4tb5qe7v
    @user-ho4tb5qe7v 2 роки тому

    Sometimes I want to pick all ytubers and time travel them back to when I was a kid, this makes sooo much more sense

  • @derekkuhl
    @derekkuhl 2 роки тому +7

    This is cool shit. They need to throw this stuff around in math class. I think it would stimulate the love of math and thinking in general in a lot more people.

    • @wellplayed4497
      @wellplayed4497 2 роки тому

      In india we were given this as an activity back in the fourth grade

    • @amyturpen4726
      @amyturpen4726 2 роки тому

      This is one of the concepts taught in CORE that parents went bat shit crazy over.

  • @dooogides9176
    @dooogides9176 2 роки тому +1

    “Let me use my calculator”
    Dame I laugh so much I didn’t expect that 😂 thx bro nice touch

  • @babypyroshark2604
    @babypyroshark2604 2 роки тому +7

    These are cruel a napier is killed to make these

  • @whatsunderthetable
    @whatsunderthetable 2 роки тому

    this video has such a charm

  • @remen_emperor
    @remen_emperor 2 роки тому

    I need these as a peak into our ancestors' strange, sideways ingenuity. It's stuff like this - not just swords, battles, and politics - that I love from history

  • @latiendadepaikawaii
    @latiendadepaikawaii 2 роки тому

    That music at the start got me thinking "why does this sound familiar?" And i saw a minecraft lego ad in my recommended and it was this same music it used.

  • @Immortal_BP
    @Immortal_BP 2 роки тому +2

    i think we used these in elementary or middle school

  • @pgum123gonowplayread4
    @pgum123gonowplayread4 2 роки тому +1

    Okay not for nothing but these bones would have been so fun to make in 4 grade art class, and useful too

  • @Kstew2
    @Kstew2 2 роки тому +1

    I wondered why he didn't start with multiples of 1 when figuring out which numbers to put on the bones until I realized multiplying anything by 1 wouldn't require a device

  • @mylehigh
    @mylehigh 2 роки тому

    When I was younger I could never figure out multiplication and only knew lattice, so it's interesting to see that other people used I'd more frequently for more applications

  • @paulc6060
    @paulc6060 2 роки тому

    This video is as though ripped from the internet of my childhood and brought here to the internet of my sad late 20's.

  • @drowningflamingo
    @drowningflamingo 2 роки тому +2

    So cool to see a demonstration of these! Btw, the sound level for the VO was a little low and the music a little high. Overall, another great video. Keep it up!

  • @mikaelsza
    @mikaelsza 2 роки тому

    YT Algorithm: Wanna see a Stick Calculator from 1600s??
    Me, watching in a sunday: WHY NOT?!

  • @bricecay1765
    @bricecay1765 2 роки тому +2

    I Remember doing lattice in middle school.

  • @philippezevenberg1332
    @philippezevenberg1332 2 роки тому +5

    I love how his horrible handwriting is almost as bad as mine! You got yourself a sub. The calculator is cool ig.

  • @sharpiedory
    @sharpiedory 6 років тому +7

    them Bones

  • @pinkdolly
    @pinkdolly 2 роки тому +1

    I learned the lattice method in elementary school in the 2000s! I found it easier to learn than the method compared to the usual way today. My mom always said the lattice method was some weird new age multiplication lollll

  • @earthly_leopard6497
    @earthly_leopard6497 2 роки тому

    I love seeing these sort of things

  • @gn0my
    @gn0my 2 роки тому

    Its just a times table with the 10s and 1s digit broken up. Could you expand it with more than 9 as the index?

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому

      if you did that, some of the answers would have 3 digits, and then things wouldn't line up properly when you place them next to each other. See my Genaille rods video for a variation which can be extended as high as you want.

  • @dr.kinderman5290
    @dr.kinderman5290 2 роки тому +2

    This is really amazing, Napier had to have been a genius

    • @pipespb
      @pipespb 2 роки тому

      Не зря его именем (Neper) назван один из параметров звука.

  • @kamo7293
    @kamo7293 2 роки тому +1

    You could do multi digit with multi digit using the bones by writing out the rows on a different paper and doing lattice on them.
    Pretty sick.
    Also first time I ever saw someone explain the abacus

  • @ichoboi
    @ichoboi 2 роки тому

    that's a pretty cool way to calculate things

  • @zeghetti595
    @zeghetti595 2 роки тому

    whats with the music are we reviewing high caliber firearms or sticks with numbers on them

  • @axdrome
    @axdrome 7 років тому +10

    Same question as in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Napier%27s_bones#repeating_digits.3F: how did they multiply numbers that contained repeating digits? I see that in your set you have duplicates available; but I guess that problem is solved similarly to how to deal with mutli-digit by multi-digit multiplications, by adding the intermediate results (that each use one digit, and separate numbers that require the same digits).

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  7 років тому +9

      "Duplicates available" would've been standard for people using these to solve real problems back then. The photo at the wikipedia article of the 18th century set has spinning rods, each of which can be turned to any digit. So on that set, there is no problem multiplying by 7777 for example. Multi-digit by multi-digit is a real issue require extra methods, but repeated digits only requires getting a few extra rods. Somebody serious about calculating would've been able to do this just fine. Thanks for watching!

  • @argonwheatbelly637
    @argonwheatbelly637 2 роки тому

    The bones were about 2 to 2½ inches long, and ¼ of an inch on a side. A set of 30 took up very little space. You could also use them to compute square and cube roots. With three or four sets, you could get some serious precision. Want to see fancier, look at the promptuary.

  • @skyjack1
    @skyjack1 2 роки тому

    So Napier’s Bones are just chunks of lattice multiplication squares on sticks so you don’t have to multiply or even write anything manually? Neat.

  • @ThePieOfTheUnknown
    @ThePieOfTheUnknown 2 роки тому +1

    My brain died in the abacus demonstration

  • @Southern.Nappiness
    @Southern.Nappiness 2 роки тому

    I subbed bcuz I love, used and understand the Napier Bones. We made small ones from popsicle sticks, just for fun in middle school. I loved the clicks of the Abacus.🙂🙂🙂

  • @Omegawylo
    @Omegawylo 2 роки тому

    This is a perfect youtube video. Perfection.

  • @BokBarber
    @BokBarber 4 місяці тому

    Me: I would like 50 free paint sticks please.
    Home Depot employee: Sure, no problem sir. (Frantically presses the Napier's Bones Alarm under the counter.)

  • @ninjabeatz905
    @ninjabeatz905 5 років тому +4

    68,88660 x 8 do you just use the same stick and move it over maybe

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  5 років тому +5

      Or make another 8 stick. If you're really serious about doing lots of computations this way, your set should contain many copies of each digit.

    • @YEET-gg9qq
      @YEET-gg9qq 5 років тому +1

      Chris Staecker how are u still coming back to this video?

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  5 років тому +1

      @@YEET-gg9qq Notifications, bruh! (I don't get many comments)

    • @YEET-gg9qq
      @YEET-gg9qq 5 років тому +4

      Chris Staecker oh yeah,you deserve more subs.

  • @argonwheatbelly637
    @argonwheatbelly637 2 роки тому

    You could also use jetons on an exchequer table, or even calculi on a sand table or Salamis-styled board.

  • @Ligers81
    @Ligers81 2 роки тому

    I didn't learn any of those methods! nice to see something new that I can still understand, except for the abacus.

  • @beares6281
    @beares6281 2 роки тому

    Genaille rods are genius. (I loved your video, but I would suggest to change your background music to something more suitable and with appropriate volume. There are royalty free music websites)

  • @cinderclawz
    @cinderclawz 2 роки тому

    I don't care about the content. I just listen to him talk and relax.

    • @ChrisStaecker
      @ChrisStaecker  2 роки тому

      You'll love this guy: ua-cam.com/video/Nw6TYp_EgG0/v-deo.html

  • @leonmercury3732
    @leonmercury3732 2 роки тому +1

    I just had memories of 3rd grade math awakened within me. I was infatuated with the Lattice method. Unfortunately, it's not as effective with larger numbers where it's easier to make minute mistakes.

    • @leonmercury3732
      @leonmercury3732 2 роки тому +1

      By that, I mean multiplying two large numbers together. Clearly, it works for a small with a large as that's the basis of the bones!

  • @BoneGoddess
    @BoneGoddess 2 роки тому

    Lol new to your channel. Loved how gitty you were over that calculator

  • @NaJk93
    @NaJk93 2 роки тому

    How would the bones work if you had a higher base value? let's say replace the 7 with like 219.

  • @erichanastacio9695
    @erichanastacio9695 2 роки тому

    How does one multiply large numbers with large numbers on abacus?
    I may be able to multiply large numbers with one or two digits, but three and more... it'll be difficult.
    I can if on paper.

  • @bsherman8236
    @bsherman8236 2 роки тому

    This looks surprising high tech for medieval times.

  • @tomlongworth5387
    @tomlongworth5387 2 роки тому +2

    I think a teacher would be impressed if you used this in highschool

  • @sohiln9076
    @sohiln9076 2 роки тому

    Thanks man just found another way to multiply big numbers