At Sun, 9 Oct 2011 15:11:24 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima <yosh...@vpri.org> wrote: > > For the first time I launched Abacus activity today. My impression is > > biased as I am Japanese and learned a version of it at school, but > > here is some suggestions: > > > > - The graphics lacks essential "dots". You see some dots in this > > picture for example: http://kamedake.com/_src/sc946/DSC_1976.jpg. > > These are "period" and "commas". The big white two dots means the > > it is 1's digit. The smaller dots on the bar are put every 3 > > digits; even though the Japanese writing system would work better > > with comma's every 4 digits, we conceeded to westerners. In any > > case, missing these dots was the first surprise for me. > > Would it make sense then to let the user move the dots left and right > depending upon where they want the 1s digit? Or is it always in the > same place?
Unless we are to invent a new scheme, I'd keep these dots at the same place. But this could be a conservable opinion... -- Yoshiki _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep