A LIGHTNING CALCULATOR
MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY. AMAZING PROBLEMS SOLVED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 13. (Received June 18, at 9.30 p.m.) Tho Morning Post’s Paris correspondent says there was a remarkable contest between Inancli, a well-known lightning calculator, and a. dozen of the most modern caleu la tine- machines in the presence of a large audience of experts. In the first test, which was the simple multiplication, division, squaring, and cubing of four figures, Inandi was appreciably ahead of the 12 machines, but the typists using tho machines were a few seconds ahead when thq test was extracting the square, cube, and other roots. Tho third tost 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 tho sloe! calculators. But tho grey matter of Ino.ndi’s brain produced the answer in 20 seconds—namely. 729, 730, and 731. Equally speedy was Inandi’s reply to tho problem : What day of the week was April 7, 1882,” Inandi replying, “Friday.”-—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 7
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