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Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record

Posted by samzenpus on from the show-off dept.

keyshawn632 writes "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."

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  1. Re:Devi: another brilliant mathematical mind by corbettw · · Score: 0, Troll

    However, around grade 9, I decided to abandon my quest in order to get a life. I had memorized 1350 digits at that point.

    Damn, you were too late.

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  2. Re:High pi by Prune · · Score: 0, Troll

    No personal offence intended, but that really was kind of lame. [Note to moderators: consider carefully the parent post before you mod me down.]

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  3. He cheated!!! by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Troll
    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.

    Wrong, you IDIOTS! He didn't compute Jack Schitt in his head. All he did was memorize every root of every number, and when they asked him, he waited 11.8 seconds, to make it look like he was thinking, and then he told them the answer.

    Nobody can compute that kind of thing in their head.