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Happy Brithday Shakuntala Devi
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:50 am
by xl_target
I don't know how many today have heard of
Shakuntala Devi but her mathematical abilities were discussed quite often when I was growing up.
On November 4th, she would have been 84. Unfortunately she died earlier this year.
Well, Happy Birthday to you, Shakuntala Devi.
Re: Happy Brithday Shakuntala Devi
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 8:59 am
by dr.jayakumar
well i saw something like 6000LE on google,and learnt that it was a mathmathicians birthday.but never heard her before.
regards
dr.jk
Re: Happy Brithday Shakuntala Devi
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:09 am
by timmy
From the wikipedia:
In 1977 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 × 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. This event is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of Records.
Amazing!!!
Re: Happy Brithday Shakuntala Devi
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:50 am
by StampMaster
Shakuntala Devi is a great mathematician, she has authored a lot of books which I/we have studied in school and college. Someone from the competitive exam like CAT, UPSC etc can give us more insight.
Re: Happy Brithday Shakuntala Devi
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:10 pm
by Vikram
She was truly great. Heard and read about her.
Best-
Vikram
Re: Happy Brithday Shakuntala Devi
Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:42 pm
by brihacharan
> Truely a remarkable persona & a wizard with numbers!
> Just goes to prove that the "Human Mind" is eons ahead of a computer!
> Thanks for reminding us xl_target....
> Many Happy Returns of the Day "Shankuntala Devi Ji".....
Briha
Re: Happy Brithday Shakuntala Devi
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:24 pm
by essdee1972
We were honoured to have the late Shakuntala Devi as a guest in our school...... almost 29 years ago. Thanks for the reminder, XL.