Today Google paid tribute to the mathematics wizard Shakuntala Devi with a nice Doodle. Fondly known as the 'human calculator', Devi was born on 4 November 1929 in Bangalore.
Shakuntala Devi astonished an audience of learned mathematicians in 1977 by calculating the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in just 50 seconds - isn’t that something? She also entered the Guinness World Record book in 1980 by demonstrating the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers in just 28 seconds at the Imperial College of London.
The doodle shows a mockup of a calculator’s LCD seven segment display that lights up the word 'Google'. Alongside is an image of Shakuntala Devi with the dimmed letters ‘S’ and ‘D’, leaving no doubt as to whom it is meant for!
:-)
She passed away due to respiratory problems on 22 April 2013.
This is an India specific Doodle, so you won’t find it on other Google homepages - not even on the Pakistan homepage - which was a part of unified India when Shakuntala Devi was born in 1929.
Shakuntala Devi astonished an audience of learned mathematicians in 1977 by calculating the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in just 50 seconds - isn’t that something? She also entered the Guinness World Record book in 1980 by demonstrating the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers in just 28 seconds at the Imperial College of London.
The doodle shows a mockup of a calculator’s LCD seven segment display that lights up the word 'Google'. Alongside is an image of Shakuntala Devi with the dimmed letters ‘S’ and ‘D’, leaving no doubt as to whom it is meant for!
:-)
She passed away due to respiratory problems on 22 April 2013.
This is an India specific Doodle, so you won’t find it on other Google homepages - not even on the Pakistan homepage - which was a part of unified India when Shakuntala Devi was born in 1929.
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