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Where does the dead Human Computer go?
The New York Times offers consolation to all survivors of
mathematician Shakuntala Devi, who has passed through 83 years of relative corporeality. Among a legacy she has left cognizant facilities -- "In 1977, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, she extracted the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds, beating a Univac computer, which took 62 seconds." Three years later, she earned herself a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records when she multiplied two 13-digit numbers (7,686,369,774,870 and 2,465,099,745,779) *and* articulated the solution (26-digits: 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730) in just 28 seconds." "Her father was a trapeze artist and lion tamer in a circus." The Times in due observance wishes to express she "was also a successful astrologer." |
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