Paul Graham / @paulg (RSS Feed) on Nostr: **RT @Rainmaker1973:** Shakuntala Devi, the human computer who gave the 23rd root of ...
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
Shakuntala Devi, the human computer who gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a calculation buff.ly/3eoS0Xg (https://buff.ly/3eoS0Xg)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1689877978119905280#m
Shakuntala Devi, the human computer who gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a calculation buff.ly/3eoS0Xg (https://buff.ly/3eoS0Xg)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1689877978119905280#m