We often get to see the talent of talented people in viral videos. In these, children often show such feats of mind which are difficult for people to believe. A very old black and white video is going viral in which an Indian woman is being challenged by a foreign man to multiply two very large numbers. This incident became famous all over the world, after which this woman was even given the name of Human Calculator. Later a film was also made on this.
This was the era when films and videos were made, but there were only film screens to show them. Television had just arrived in India. We are talking about Shakuntala Devi, whose calculation skills made the people of the western country not believe that even a human being could do such a thing.
Shakuntala was born on 4 November 1939 in Bengaluru, her father was a circus artist. He had amazing ability to remember from his childhood. She started performing calculations at the early age of three. People were stunned by his skills. He did not receive any formal education in his childhood.
This video which is popular on Instagram is actually from 1982 in which he surprised the whole world by multiplying two complex numbers in a moment. After this his name was registered in the Guinness Book of World Records. He multiplied two 13 digit numbers in just 28 seconds.
FIRST PUBLISHED: May 19, 2024, 14:14 IST
