Shakuntala Devi was born on 4 November 1929 at Banglore , Karnataka, was known as the HUMAN COMPUTER .

  Her father C.V  Sundararaja Rao,  discovered his daughter's ability to memorize numbers while teaching her a card trick when she was about three years old. 

Shakuntala Devi was born on 4 November 1929 at Banglore , Karnataka, was known as the HUMAN COMPUTER .

  Her father C.V  Sundararaja Rao,  discovered his daughter's ability to memorize numbers while teaching her a card trick when she was about three years old. 

Her father left the circus and took her on road shows that displayed her ability at calculation. 

She did this without any formal education. At the age of six she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore.

In the year  1944, Devi moved to London, United Kingdom    

On 1988, she travelled to the US to have her abilities studied by Arthur Jensen, 

a professor of educational psychology at the University of California,

 Berkeley. Jensen tested her performance at several tasks, including the calculation of large numbers. 

Examples of the problems presented to Devi included calculating the cube root of 61,629,875 

In 1977, at Southern Methodist University,

 she gave the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in 50 seconds. Her answer, which was 546,372,891, was confirmed by calculations done at the US Bureau of Standards

On 18 June 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers – 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779. These numbers were picked at random by the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.

This event was recorded in the 1982 Guinness Book of World Records.

Writer Steven Smith commented, "the result is so far superior to anything previously reported that it can only be described as unbelievable."

Shakuntala Devi explained many of the methods she used to do mental calculations in her book Figuring: The Joy of Numbers.

On 1977, she wrote The World of Homosexuals, the first published academic study of homosexuality in India, for which she was criticised. In the documentary For Straights Only.

 She said that her interest in the topic was because of her marriage to a homosexual man and her desire to look at homosexuality more closely to understand it.

In addition to her work as a mental calculator, Devi was a notable astrologer and an author of several books, including cookbooks and novels.

 She started with writing short stories and murder mysteries, and had a keen interest in music.

On April 2013, Devi was admitted to a hospital in Bangalore with severe respiratory problems. Over the following two weeks she suffered from heart and kidney complications. She died in the hospital on 21 April 2013.

On 4 November 2013, Devi was honored with a Google Doodle on her 84th birthday.

A film on her life titled Shakuntala Devi was announced on May 2019. The film stars Vidya Balan in the lead title role Shakuntala Devi .

Produced by Sony Pictures Networks Productions, the film streamed worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on 31 July 2020.

 Here is a quiz.

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