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Math Whiz Breaks Calculation Record
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."
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Gert Mittrings!!
It seems everyone had forgot that Guiness had held its own Guinness record for world's most dangerous domain hijacker. One minute readers cried foul for losing civil rights, the next minute they are supporting these violators by promoting them! What a bunch of whining hypocrites. Show some backbone next time, because they are going to smash you into spineless fools if you don't.
as a side note, he has also never seen a human vagina in person
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.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
No personal offence intended, but that really was kind of lame. [Note to moderators: consider carefully the parent post before you mod me down.]
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
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.