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 "9167486769200391580986609
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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