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Posted: Thu 4:04, 01 Aug 2013 Post subject: She could give you the cube root of 188 |
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(7,686,369,774,870 and 2,465,099,745,779) *and* articulated the solution (26-digits: 18,947,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],668,177,995,426,462,773,730) in just 28 seconds.A 1976 article about her described her abilities thusly: "She could give you the cube root of 188,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],132,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],517 -- or almost any other number -- in the time it took to ask the question. If you gave her any date in the last century,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she would tell you what day of the week it fell on."Not once but twice while on tour in Europe -- one time on the BBC, the second at the University of Rome -- her quizzers pronounced her wrong, and then were forced to admit to calculation errors in their own work."Her father was a trapeze artist and lion tamer in a circus."And, according to the Times,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she "was also a successful astrologer, cookbook author and novelist."A 1990 article from the journal Intelligence explored "the question everyone asks": "How does she do it?"Her own answers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] outlet, he continued, were "rather inconsistent" and, I'd add,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
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