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Forty years after breaking the world record for the fastest human computation, Shakuntala Devi has finally received the Guinness World Record for her achievement.
Meet Bhanu Prakash, recognised as the world's fastest human calculator. At a young age, he made history as the first Indian to win a gold medal at the 2020 Mental Calculation World Championship ...
Devi holds the Guinness World Record for “Fastest Human Computation.” In 1980, she correctly multiplied two 13-digit numbers in just 28 seconds at Imperial College London.
Mental Calculation world champion Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, 20, is better known as the “World’s Fastest Human Calculator.” After sustaining a brain injury aged 5, he solved puzzles as a ...
A biographical drama on the life of Shakuntala Devi, the renowned mathematician, whose astounding skills of solving complex math problems in record time won her admiration and awe, the world over.
Shakuntala Devi is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records for multiplying two 13-digit numbers in just 28 seconds - a time that includes how long it took her to say the 26-digit answer.
Team India’s archer Sheetal Devi introduced herself to the world at the 2024 Paris Paralympics by way of a perfect bull’s-eye.
A report from the World Meteorological Organization confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year to be more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial era.
Shakuntala Devi strove to simplify maths for students Among her distinctions was her ability to, given a date in the last century, mentally ascertain the day.
Astrologer Shakuntala Devi, dubbed as the world's fastest 'human computer' and who made complex mental calculations as a child prodigy, died at a hospital here today following respiratory problems ...
NEW DELHI: Guinness World Records on Thursday honoured Indian math genius, Shakuntala Devi, with the long-overdue record title for 'fastest human computation', four decades after she achieved the ...