A supremely gifted mathematician, Shakuntala Devi was nicknamed India’s ‘human computer’ for most of her life. Read more about her life and work in her obituary from BBC News. She passed away in 2013.
Among her adult feats, she was able to multiply two random 13-digit numbers in a few seconds.
She once calculated the 23rd root of a 201 digit number mentally in under a minute.
When given a date in the last century she could instantly calculate which day it fell on.
She was featured by Guinness World Records for this facility with numbers.
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