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REMARKABLE CONTEST. MAN BEATS MACHINES. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT . LONDON, June 18. Ihe Paris correspondent of the Morning Post says there was a remarkable contest between M. Inaudi, the wellknown lightning calculator, and a dozen of the most modern calculating machines, in the presence of a large audience of experts. . 1 11 the first test, a simple multiplication division, squaring and cubeing of four squares, M. Inaudi was appreciably ahead of the twelve machines, but the typists using the machines were a lew seconds ahead when the test was extracting the square, cube, and other roots. The third test included such problems as the determination of three consecutive numbers, of which the total of the square amounted to 1,601,802. This was beyond the _ steel calculators, but the grey matter in the mathematician’s brain produced an answer in 20 seconds, namely, 729, 730 and 731. Equally speedy was his reply to the problem of what day of the week was April 7, 1882, his reply being Friday.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 June 1924, Page 5
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