Names Shakuntala Devi
Date of Birth November 04, 1929 – Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Date of Death April 21, 2013 – Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Profession / Traits / Activities  Indian prodigy Mental Calculator and Human Computer
Developments / Events
  • Popularly known as ‘Human Computer
  • By age six, she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore.
  • At the age of eight, she had success at Annamalai University by doing the same.
  • In 1977 in USA she competed with a computer to see who gives the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won.
  • At the Southern Methodist University she was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds.
  • Her answer—546,372,891—was confirmed by calculations done at the U.S. Bureau of Standards by the Univac 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
  • On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds.
  • In 2006 she released the Wonderland of Numbers which talks about a girl Neha and her fascination for numbers. She developed the concept of 'mind dynamics'.
Commemorations Her feat of June 18, 1980 is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of Records.
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