Entertainment Watch Shakuntala Devi in action, stunning audiences by performing complex arithmetic between long numbers.Tnm StaffScreenshot: Atn CanadaBengaluru-born Shakuntala Devi, who came to be known as the ‘human computer’, has been in the news lately, thanks to an upcoming eponymous film about her life starring Vidya Balan. Shakuntala, who died on April 21, 2013, was renowned for her mathematical genius – a talent she says she had since she was just three years old. But all said and done, the idea of someone performing multiplication of over 13-digit numbers, or deriving 23rd cube roots of long numbers seems quite surreal. So, we scoured the internet for some videos of the math wiz to see her in action, and to learn more about Shakuntala in her own words. Here are some clips that will awe you. ‘Do you want the answer from right to left, or left to right?’ We have seen a...
- 7/25/2020
- by Geetika
- The News Minute
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It's 40 years since Multi-Coloured Swap Shop made its television debut and kick-started the Saturday morning kids' TV slot...
Imagine the excitement - it's just before 9.30am on Saturday 2nd October 1976. It's almost like Christmas has come early, such is the anticipation. The nation's kids, who hitherto got their kicks at the Saturday morning pictures, settle in front of their television screens and press the button marked 'BBC1'. Those who read their parents' Radio Times know a new show is about to start with Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ Noel Edmonds at the helm. 28 year old Noel is cool and down with the kids. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen - the Doctor and Sarah Jane from Doctor Who - are to be the first star guests, and you can actually speak to them live by telephone! The TV set warms up and the familiar blue and yellow BBC...
It's 40 years since Multi-Coloured Swap Shop made its television debut and kick-started the Saturday morning kids' TV slot...
Imagine the excitement - it's just before 9.30am on Saturday 2nd October 1976. It's almost like Christmas has come early, such is the anticipation. The nation's kids, who hitherto got their kicks at the Saturday morning pictures, settle in front of their television screens and press the button marked 'BBC1'. Those who read their parents' Radio Times know a new show is about to start with Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ Noel Edmonds at the helm. 28 year old Noel is cool and down with the kids. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen - the Doctor and Sarah Jane from Doctor Who - are to be the first star guests, and you can actually speak to them live by telephone! The TV set warms up and the familiar blue and yellow BBC...
- 9/28/2016
- Den of Geek
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