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Shakuntala Devi is an outstanding calculating prodigy of India. On June 18 in 1980, she again solved the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 randomly picked up by the computer department of Imperial College in London. And this, she did in 28 seconds flat.

Born on 4 November in 1939 at the city of Bangalore in Karnataka state, Shakuntala Devi is an outstanding calculating prodigy of India. Belonging from a very humble family, Shakuntala Devi's father was employed as a trapeze and tightrope performer and later on, as a human cannonball in a circus. It was once while she was playing cards with her father at the age of three that it was discovered that she is a calculating genius. It turn out that she beat him not by slight of the hand, but by memorizing the cards.

Read on this biography to know more about the life history of Shakuntala Devi. When Shakuntala Devi was six years old, she demonstrated her calculation skills at the University of Mysore. And by the time, she was 8 years old, she had again proved herself successful at Annamalai University by doing the same. However despite apprehensions from some quarters, Shakuntala Devi did not lose her calculating ability with the setting in of adulthood like other prodigies such as Truman Henry Safford.

On the other hand, in the year 1977, Shakuntala Devi obtained the 23rd root of the digit number '201' mentally. On 18 June in 1980, she again solved the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 that were randomly picked by the computer department of Imperial College in London. And this, she did in 28 seconds flat. Her correct answer to this multiplication sum was 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730. This incident has been included on the 26th page of the famous 1995 Guinness Book of Records.

Superb personality we have guys. Who is called "HUMAN CALCULATOR"

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 50seconds.

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.

In 2006 she released a new book called In the Wonderland of Numbers with Orient Paperbacks which talks about a girl Neha and her fascination for numbers...

Proud of Her...:)

Shakuntala Devi (k/a human computer) died on April 21, 2013. Her arithmetic talents and mental abilities are revered by many around the world including google which honoured her with a Google Doodle on her birthday on Non 4.

About Shakunthala Devi:

On her 84th birth anniversary, Google honoured the 'Human Computer' by creating a commemorative doodle.

She is one of the few Indian female individuals to have featured on a doodle.

Shakuntala Devi was born in Bangalore, India (4 November 1929 - 21 April 2013) and also Indian writer and mental calculator, popularly known as the - human computer.

She was from bangalore. She multiplied 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 and gave answer in less than 28 sec which created an world record.

She is from bangalore she found 24th square of a 102 digit no. in just 50 seconds while a super comp. does the same in 62 seconds.

She calculated the value of 99 th root of 201397331 in 20sec while param computer takes 25 sec.

Ans is 0.998600.

Please tell me year or date of competition. Also that can she defeat newer version of computer.

Its Really a proud of India having such a great HUMAN COMPUTER.

It happens only in INDIA.