http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/smart_stupid Exhibit A: Mathlete Breaks Own Record: The world's fastest human calculator on Tuesday broke his own record for working out a 200-digit number using nothing but brain power to produce the answer in just over 70 seconds. Alexis Lemaire, a 27-year-old Frenchman, correctly calculated the 13th root of a random 200-digit number from a possible 393 trillion answers. The so-called 'mathlete' produced the answer of 2,407,899,893,032,210 in 70.2 seconds, beating his previous record of 72.4 seconds, at London's Science Museum. A computer was used to produce a random 200-digit number before he sat down to calculate the answer in his... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:55:35 -0800 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:44:13 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I agree. With calculators readily available, doing math in your head is stupid.

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