Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record
Thursday 25 November 2004 @ 4:52 pm
Filed under misc by AJ  

From Slashdot:

The Associated Press reports that Gert Mittring, 38, needed only 11.8 seconds to calculate the 13th root of a 100-digit number in his head at a math museum in Giessen, a small town, located in western Germany. It’s worth noting though that his feat will not be recognized by The Guinness Book Of World Records because of the difficulty of standardizing such mathematical challenges

Beat that so-called math majors’!

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