The fastest brain calculator
Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash- “the fastest human calculator” in the world, is the first Indian to win a gold medal at the Mental Calculation World Championship, an event held during Mind Sports Olympiad in London recently. He is just 20-year-old from Hyderabad, studying Mathematics at Delhi St Stephen College and holds four world records and 50 Limca records. “Mental calculation may have been popularized recently by a Bollywood movie Shakuntala Devi. And on Independence Day, I represented India at Mind Sports Olympics” he said. “Beating 29 competitors, up to 57 years of age, from 13 countries, I won the first gold medal with a clear margin of 65 points. The judges were spellbound by my speed; they required me to perform more calculations to confirm my accuracy,” he told. The Mind Sports Olympics, for those who don’t know what that is, are an annual multidisciplined world competition that prizes feast of mental skill and agility. The first Mind Sports Olympics was held...