Saturday, December 15, 2007

Human Calculator Breaks World Record

Source: BBC

The fastest human calculator has broken his own mental arithmetic world record.


Alexis Lemaire used brain power alone to work out the answer to the 13th root of a random 200-digit number in 70.2 seconds at London's Science Museum.


The 27-year-old student correctly calculated an answer of 2,407,899,893,032,210, beating his record of 72.4 seconds, set in 2004.


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