{"id":13653,"date":"2013-11-05T03:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T03:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/05\/angrywomenofcolorunited-today-google\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T22:48:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T22:48:22","slug":"angrywomenofcolorunited-today-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/05\/angrywomenofcolorunited-today-google\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13653 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/05\/angrywomenofcolorunited-today-google\/attachment\/13654\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvr2en1QRq1srrof2o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvr2en1QRq1srrof2o1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvr2en1QRq1srrof2o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/05\/angrywomenofcolorunited-today-google\/attachment\/13655\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvr2en1QRq1srrof2o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvr2en1QRq1srrof2o2_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_mvr2en1QRq1srrof2o2_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/angrywomenofcolorunited.tumblr.com\/post\/66007841538\/today-google-celebrates-shakuntala-devis-84th\">angrywomenofcolorunited<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today Google celebrates\u00a0Shakuntala Devi\u2019s 84th birthday. \u00a0She was popularly known as the \u201cHuman Computer\u201d, was a child prodigy, and mental calculator. She passed away on April 21\u00a02013, she was 83 years old. Her achievements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>In 1977 in the USA she competed with a computer to see who could calculate the cube root of 188,132,517 faster (she won). That same year, at the\u00a0<\/span><span>Southern Methodist University<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>she was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds.<\/span><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-HINDU_1-6\"><\/sup><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Her answer\u2014546,372,891\u2014was confirmed by calculations done at the U.S. Bureau of Standards by the Univac 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.<\/span><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-11\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shakuntala_Devi#cite_note-11\"><br \/><\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li><span>On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 \u00d7 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Imperial College, London<\/span><span>. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds.<\/span><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-NYT_2-9\"><\/sup><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>This event is mentioned in the 1982<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Guinness Book of Records<\/em><span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span>In 1977, she wrote\u00a0<\/span><em>The World of Homosexuals<\/em><span>, the first\u00a0<\/span><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-12\"><\/sup><span>study of homosexuality in India.<\/span><sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-worldoh_13-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shakuntala_Devi#cite_note-worldoh-13\"><br \/><\/a><\/sup><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy birthday\u00a0<span>Shakuntala!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>angrywomenofcolorunited: Today Google celebrates\u00a0Shakuntala Devi\u2019s 84th birthday. \u00a0She was popularly known as the \u201cHuman Computer\u201d, was a child prodigy, and mental calculator. She passed away on April 21\u00a02013, she was 83 years old. 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