MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY.
ONLY SIX YEARS OLD
A child wonder, with unusual mental powers, attends a school at Findly, Ohio. He is master Roy Fork, aged six and the son of a local well-driller. While bright in all his school work, the hoy is a prodigy in mathematics. He knows the calender by heart, and although piled with the most severe questions in regard to days and dates he never makes a mistake. If you tell him your age he can tell you in a second, what year you were horn in, and day, and ask him what day of the week it comes on he replies at once correctly and without fail. Although not customary to teach children the months, Roy mastered them when he went to kindergarten and the remarkable feature is that he was never taught.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4601, 3 July 1917, Page 3
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138MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY. Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4601, 3 July 1917, Page 3
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