Eectronic Brain
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[?]oesn’t Need An Eectronic Brain
ether or not she was ght up by the birds” as her implies, Shakuntala Devi, hmin woman from Banga who flew in to Fiji on the Qantas commercial jet from Sydney, seems to all the answers . s Shakuntala, a pleasant f woman of 26, was in Fiji rt of a world tour in which s demonstrating her ex linary mental gift in the
of mathematics.
i is not unique similar have been reported all the world, and New Zea i West Coast has such a mt at present—but it is lit to believe that anyone do better in the realm of il arithmetic than Miss mtala, who can extract )th root of a 42-digit num without hesitation, and ut knowing how she does just one of those things, nions seem to be divided whether Miss Shakuntala I be a more dangerous or handy person to have ! the establishment.
