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Did she ever document her mental process for these sorts of feats? I mean, I doubt I could come up with the correct answer given an unlimited time, a ream of paper, and a pocket calculator, so I'm fascinated how she did. Was she very good at complex math, or did she leverage a huge working memory to split the problem up into a larger number of simpler calculations, or some other combination of factors?
This is somewhat related. I remember watching an episode of "Stan Lee's Super humans" on the Discovery channel. They were with a man who was also able to do lightning fast calculations, not of the complexity as described in the article, but he could easily recall dates, multiply 5 digit numbers faster than someone with a calculator etc. They put this man under an MRI scanner while giving him problems to solve. What t…
It all started when Cletus Jefferson asked himself
"Why aren't all blind people geniuses?" Cletus was only
13 at the time, but it was a good question, and he would
work on it for 14 more years, and then change the world forever.