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2 unusual facts about Horizontal bar


Horizontal bar

The gymnastics elements performed on the horizontal bar are regulated by a Code of Points.

When gymnasts compete on the horizontal bar they are often required by the Code of Points to use specific grips.


Osvaldo Palazzi

In the next World Championships, in 1913, Palazzi won silver in the pommel horse (behind Giorgio Zampori) and bronze in the horizontal bar.


see also

Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics – Men's team horizontal bar

The men's team horizontal bar was the second of eight gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme.

Irrational number

Al-Hassār, a Moroccan mathematician from Fez specializing in Islamic inheritance jurisprudence during the 12th century, first mentions the use of a fractional bar, where numerators and denominators are separated by a horizontal bar.

Menu bar

In the Macintosh operating system, the menu bar is a horizontal "bar" anchored to the top of the screen.

Rod calculus

This form of fraction with numerator on top and denominator at bottom without a horizontal bar in between, was transmitted to Arabic country in a 825AD book by al Khwarizmi via India, and in use by 10th century Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi and 15th century Jamshīd al-Kāshī's work "Arithematic Key".