![]() She took only fifty seconds to calculate the twenty-third root of a 201 digit number. Shakuntala Devi popularly known as "the human computer," is a world famous mathematical prodigy who continues to outcompute the most sophisticated computers. Divided into three parts, the first will tell you everything about numbers, the second some anecdotes related with numbers and mathematicians, and the third a few important tables that will always help you. This book contains all we always wanted to know about numbers but was difficult to understand, and which was nowhere available. Shakuntala Devi, the internationally famous mathematical wizard, makes it easy for us- and interesting. But we carry in us a certain fear of numbers and are never confident about using them. ![]() We need them in our daily chores, big and small. Shakuntala Devi's Book of Numbers Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Numbers, But was Difficult to Understand We can't live without numbers. Everything you always wanted to know about numbers but was difficult to understand.
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