Shakuntala Devi | ಶಾಕುಂತಲ ದೇವಿ


Shakuntala Devi - The Human Computer!

Born on Nov 4th, 1939 in Bangalore.

-In 1977 In Dallas she competed with a computer to see who give the cube root of 188138517 faster, she won!

-At university of USA she was asked to give the 23rd root of "91674867692003915809866092758538016248310668014430862240712651642793465704086709659 32792057674808067900227830163549248523803357453169351119035965775473400756818688305 620821016129132845564895780158806771".
She answered in 50 seconds. The answer is 546372891. It took a UNIVAC 1108 computer, full one minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 13000 instructions!!

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