though you do not need to use an abacus in daily life at all, you don't even need to use it for the school maths syllabus, still a million Japanese kids every year study the abacus at about 20,000 abacus schools or kind of after they're called jukus where it's sort of after school clubs. And Japan has this kind of tradition of these jukus for other things, after school clubs.
They're not all that old, but I was surprised to see that many people in the 25-40 year Taken aback, he said, "I speak all languages of Europe." This gave me the impression that once you learn some number, especially with related
sitting there watching TV. I saw that earthquake in Kashmir where 3 million people just got dislodged because of the earthquake, and as I'm watching this I'm like, genuinely, quite taken aback thinking just in a split second just imagine 3 million people just kind of lose their homes. It was a Thursday, and that night for some reason I couldn't sleep. I was just going through my head. And I got up in the morning and I said, "I'm actually going to go to Kashmir.
And we were able to create this movie that you see. And I was taken aback. I was really in shock, because I did not know how it worked.
They actually leaned in. They were taken aback, almost. They were like, wow.
When I was in corporate America working at a Fortune 200 company for a while, when I came I think they were actually a little taken aback by how I was like, OK, you need this done today? Well, there's 24 hours in a day.
he gets to be sort of, you know, pulled in and again absorb that energy that he's put out for so many years. I was taken aback by the immense awesomeness awesomeness of that day. It was a fantastic day. Mm. And when you talk about being a superhero and the reaction of watching his response to his moments, I'm struck by the moment in the film near the end where you
She had an errand to run. I was really taken aback by the fact that you mentioned about stress versus time with the kids.
Good idea. So I'm sure you guys have done a lot of other stuff that was really clever, but just didn't see the light of day. And everyone was taken aback, and that's what we did.
And they said, look, come out to dinner with us. They were taken aback-- very surprised. And-- ERIC M. RUIZ: You just give them back $2 million.
So even coming up, and it was like, oh, wow. I'm taken aback by it because of the intensity. Cool. Yeah. Speaking of intensity, and thinking about just shifting gears a little bit, let's talk a little bit about the Tiny Desk Contest and how that has just
And then we'd have a lot of leeway in terms of skin color at least in that conversation-- Pacific Islander, Native American as well. So they are taken aback.
What I did was I took Stephen Levy's book, "Insanely Great" and basically just replaced Jobs and Macintosh with Leonardo and "Liber Abaci," and the whole thing was the story. I basically got the story that was in "The Man of Numbers." And so I massaged that a bit and we brought that out.
Within a few years, you have the beginning of an enormous number of handwritten manuscripts on teach yourself arithmetic, commercial arithmetic. They're now called abacus books. They weren't discovered until the 1960s, but there's a lot of them around.
So you've got this massive amount of activity taking place, at the beginning of the-- shortly within a few decades of the appearance of "Liber Abaci." Those are facts. This is all data.
The clue it turned out was to look at everything else he'd written. Because most of those abacus books, most of those commercial arithmetic books, they also included a chapter on geometry. Well, there was no geometry in "Liber Abaci".
It's like every year you don't know. I'm taken aback by it.
How did he know that a Turk is behind this company? And I was taken aback. And he started talking about Bulent, and Bulent's story.
about the Abacus transaction we were talking about a minute ago.
And I was taken aback.
She was so taken aback that I spoke English fluently.
In Japan, probably the greatest way that their approach to maths and numbers is different to in the U.K. and in America, certainly, is in the presence of the abacus. Now this is an abacus. An abacus is a counting machine or a calculating machine. It's really the oldest kind of calculating machine that there is and virtually all cultures that count have similar things. Sometimes they don't make them into mechanical objects they're just lines and you have sort of say pebbles on a counter. That's where the word counter comes
pocket calculator in Japan and from Russia, eastwards, actually, everyone would learn to calculate using an abacus. And actually I've brought this item on here which came out ?
whether you're right with a calculator. But obviously it was completely the other way around 'cause they didn't trust this so they would do it here and they would just check on the abacus just to see if they got it right. Now the phrase for reading, writing, arithmetic in Japanese is yonde, kaki, soroban; reading, writing, soroban. So it's very kind of culturey; it's something in their culture. And even
muscle as well to kind of practice that." And also I could see that the kids were really, they were really having fun. There's something about learning with the abacus, there's something kind of visceral about the counting that makes people enjoy it a lot more. Now I was kind of fascinated by the soroban and then Yugi Miyamoto made me more fascinated by telling me about something called anzan. Anzan is if you can do the abacus really well
them. It was absolutely fascinating. So the abacus is basically the oldest way to calculate, but it's still in some ways the most versatile and also the littlest understood. Now very quickly the final section I'm gonna have to rush through because I realize I'm running out of time.
being somewhat taken aback by the just the idea that there was such a thing as information Theory as a mathematical
course completely taken aback and said I love them both the same and what would you say and she said well but really
was taken aback he asked O'Neal why Merill was getting into his business meaning subprime it's part of our plan
that she was just taken aback.
And I was sort of taken aback.
And I was just kind of taken aback a bit.
But I was really just so taken aback by the amount of kindness that I experienced from the moment that I got there.
And they were completely taken aback by the results.
This was a copy of something was written that all of the other ones came from. This is really close after "Liber Abaci". That was what gave them material.
and and she was really taken aback by that response with her class
I don't know who Abacha was.
that you've generated in Abacus, into a structure that once you've 3D printed it, you can localize the stresses and strains appropriately.
in what was called the Abacus transaction facilitated by Goldman Sachs.
So that when we talked about that Abacus transaction, nobody went to jail for that.
And I was very taken aback by that.
And I am so taken aback by that.
And Marco was somewhat taken aback, and said, really?
And I remember being immediately just taken aback by the sight of a belly button.
And I was so taken aback by the question, I just sort of stood there, and she repeated in this very insistent voice.
And I was a little taken aback, and I, uh, was like, “Oh, oh okay.” Um, and so then I started talking to him and he basically grilled me for the entire meeting.
So we were quite taken aback by the fact that this logging concession was in a national forest. And, especially, because we had interviewed
once again Bey was taken aback by the space ahead but this time not because of the vastness of its Dimensions but
And I thought that moment-- I was taken aback by that moment because I think that's one of the interesting things about the movie is it tonally--
And it's about a book about a book about a book, where the last one is right associative. The book that we start with is "Liber Abaci," spelled with double B, and published in 1202 in Pisa, in Italy, handwritten manuscript. The book that we now know, thanks to research that was done in the early 2000s era, began the whole of the modern Western world.