The grammar of numbers and time

By Jose A. Carillo

Oct 06, 2022 12:47 am

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A MATH wizard from Bangalore, India, by the name of Shakantula Devi made it to the Guinness Book of Records in 1980 when she mentally multiplied two 13-digit numbers in 28 seconds. This was the arithmetic operation she performed:

7,686,369,774,870 x 2, 465,099,745,779 = 18,947,668,177,995,426,773,730

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