Shakuntala Devi
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fiat_knoxI would love to meet this woman. Her capacity to compute numbers mentally is prodigious.
She also published a 1977 study on homosexuality in India, clearly attempting to break some taboos there.
She is an amazing and beautiful woman - and to me, beauty is as much a function of mind as of physical form.
When I was asked to create a calendar program back in college, when I needed to calculate what day of the week a given date started on, I used Shakuntala Devi's formula for calculating the day of the week for any given date. I got an A for that assignment.
I have a very old, yellowed, book, Figuring - The Joy of Numbers, written in the 1970s; it has never been far from my side. This woman generated in me a love of number which has never died.
She also published a 1977 study on homosexuality in India, clearly attempting to break some taboos there.
She is an amazing and beautiful woman - and to me, beauty is as much a function of mind as of physical form.
When I was asked to create a calendar program back in college, when I needed to calculate what day of the week a given date started on, I used Shakuntala Devi's formula for calculating the day of the week for any given date. I got an A for that assignment.
I have a very old, yellowed, book, Figuring - The Joy of Numbers, written in the 1970s; it has never been far from my side. This woman generated in me a love of number which has never died.
hi
Date: 2009-06-16 12:42 pm (UTC)Re: hi
Date: 2009-06-16 01:12 pm (UTC)