GK
FAMOUS PERSONALITIES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Ramanujam
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Rina Panigrahi
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Shakuntala Devi
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Raja Ramanna
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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Shakuntala Devi. She was born in Bangalore, was born on the 4th of November, 1929. At the age of three, she played cards with her father and it was discovered by the family that she was special while remembering numbers.
Detailed explanation-2: -She was given the name Human Computer’ after she appeared in a show at BBC channel hosted by Leslie Mitchell on October 5, 1950. In the interview, Shakuntala Devi was given a complex maths problem that she solved in seconds, but her answer didn’t match the answer which the channel had.
Detailed explanation-3: -She has described some of the methods and techniques about mental multiplication and calendar calculations in her book ‘Figuring:the joy of mathematics’. All of these watershed achievements in Devi’s life earned her the status and the title of ‘Human computer’.