![]() This was also the time that she took to speak out the 26 digits of the answer. The zenith of her career was the recognition by the 1982’s edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for multiplying two 13-digit numbers in record 28 seconds. Her genius was soon recognised and she moved from one country to another solving some of the most complex arithmetic problems within seconds and stunning her audiences. She did shows at the age of six, and finally moved to London when she was 15 years old. It is said that her genius with numbers was discovered by her father when she was three years old. Interestingly, if the story of the first Shakuntala was about forgetfulness, the story of the second one was to be a tribute to human memory and skill.īorn in 1929 and raised in Bangalore, Shakuntala Devi came to be known as the Human Computer, owing to her extraordinary mathematical skills. ![]() When Sir William Jones translated Kalidasa’s Shakuntala, the first ever Indian drama to be translated into English, in 1789, he would have hardly predicted the rise of another Shakuntala who would fascinate the Westerners as much as the first one had.
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