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Shakuntala Devi
  • Date of Birth:
    November 4, 1939
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Scorpio
  • Place of Birth:
    Bangalore, India
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Nationality:
    Indian
  • Religion:
    Hinduism

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    Shakuntala Devi
    • Answered the question in 28 seconds.
    • On June 18, 1980 she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London.
    • At the age of eight she had success at Annamalai University by doing the same.
    • By age six she demonstrated her calculation and memorization abilities at the University of Mysore.
    • Her calculating gifts first demonstrated themselves while she was doing card tricks with her father when she was three.
    • Her father worked in a "Brahmin circus" as a trapeze and tightrope performer, and later as a lion tamer and a human cannonball.
    • Is a calculating prodigy who was born on November 4, 1939 in Bangalore, India.

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