Shakuntala Devi Born – 4 November 1939 Achievements – Shakuntala Devi is an outstanding calculating prodigy of India. On June 18 in 1980, she again solved the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 randomly picked up by the computer department of Imperial College in London. And this, she did in 28 seconds flat. [...]
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Kalpana Chawla
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Deepak Chopra
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Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
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Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
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Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar
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Satyendra Nath Bose
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Tyagaraja (త్యాగరాజ)
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Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma (ശ്രീ സ്വാതി തിരുനാള് രാമ വര്മ്മ)
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Kshetrayya (క్షేత్రయ్య)
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Dasu Sreeramulu
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Achyutashtakam (अच्युताष्टकम्)
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Alluri Sita Rama Raju (Telugu: అల్లూరి సీతారామరాజు)
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Swami Brahmananda
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Shri Vasudevanand Saraswati
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