January 24, 1977.- A worth reading  |
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 January 24, 1977. A cold and windy Monday afternoon at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas .
A beautiful young lady smartly clad in a sari, walks up to the stage. She sits down on a chair smiling at the hundreds of students and professors assembled in the hall. A scholarly professor writes a 201 digit long number on the black board at her side. The number occupies 10 lines and takes four minutes to write. After finishing the number, the professor takes out a stopwatch from his pocket and with a nod at the lady he starts the timer. There is absolute silence in the hall.
The young lady takes one long look at the number and closes her eyes. Seconds tick by. In deep concentration she appears to have gone into a trance. At the fifty-second mark, the lady opens her eyes and slowly pronounces the answer, '546372891'. The professor checks it with the result given by the computer. Yes, she is correct. It is the 23rd root of the 201 digit long number. Earlier that day, the fastest computer of the time, Univac 1108, had taken 62 seconds to give the answer.
Every member of the audience jumped to their feet and applauded the genius who has beaten the computer.
She is Born in Bangalore, the lady is Shakuntala Devi........... .
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1.  angel_of_charm (2710) | 3 years ago |  wow! very impressing..all of the people is thinking the computer is the most genius invention in the world that it can provide an answers we need..but with this lady beating up the computer..she is a hell genius..i wonder what it made her life of being a genius lady like that..all i can say is wow!
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2.  subathra (2812) | 3 years ago |  Very interesting.what an ability she possess? i really wonder..she calculates faster than a computer.Thanks for providing such a vital details.Its interesting to read and know something new which is a fact.
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| 3. eshaan (2475) | 3 years ago |  Yes, i have heard about the lady and she is really a great wonder. We Indians should be proud of her, but i think very few must be knowing about her.
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4.  deep_enjoy (130) | 3 years ago |  wow this amazing, now a days most of the people mostly depends on calculaters and computers, but this is great to hear that a person has beaten it, now we can have competitions with them.
And the more important thing is that computers are made by man which are genius n assurate in its job with the main drawback that they can not think on their own...
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| 5. Mitraa (2125) | 3 years ago |  Yes, I have heard, read as well as watched Shakuntala Devi in TV interviews. She is called the living computer on the earth. Her aquaintance with number system and its application is quite fantastic. I myself is unable to apprehend her performances. But I have watched her in a TV interview saying that all these are due to many simple numerologic tricks those can be followed by any person easily with common understanding in Mathematics! Her quickness in finding the answer has no comparison! I do'nt know more about Shakuntala Devi. Please post more on her. Thanks for this nice posting.
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| 6. rb200406 (1700) | 3 years ago |  She is really amazing.I wonder what her brains have got.Really amazing Indian woman
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| 7. dbhattji (1811) | 3 years ago |  She is a great lady, she solves maths problems using Vedic maths which is faster than computers - that is the reason they are thinking of adopting sanskrit for computer language because it is best suited for that.
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