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'.
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Commemorations |
Her feat of June
18, 1980 is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of
Records. |
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