Introducing the brain: brain mental capacity (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, December 17, 2020, 22:36 (1223 days ago) @ David Turell

It is what are of brain you are born with:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/mathematics/shakuntala-devi-counts-her-blessings/?ut...

"Although often referred to as a “human computer”, Shakuntala Devi was a different type of character, a woman who took an amazing talent for calculating numbers and turned it into a long and varied career as a performer, writer and motivational speaker.

"Devi was born into a Brahmin family in Bangalore, India, on 4 November 1929. Her father discovered his daughter’s facility with numbers when she was three, while teaching her card tricks. He quit his job and took her out on the road, displaying her as a novelty act. She never received a formal education.

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"One of her most widely reported public appearances made it, eventually, into the Guinness Book of Records. At Imperial College London in 1980, Devi was asked to multiply two 13-digit numbers, selected at random: 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779.

"It took her 28 seconds, including the time needed to deliver the answer: 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730.

"In a 1990 edition of the journal Intelligence, education researcher Arthur R Jensen published an extraordinarily entertaining paper titled “Speed of Information Processing in a Calculating Prodigy”. The prodigy in question was Devi.

"Jensen performed several tests of her abilities, finding that “cube roots could almost be called Devi’s specialty”.

“'To ‘warm up’, she requested a large number of cube root problems, that is, extracting the cube roots of large numbers, mostly in the millions, hundreds of millions, and trillions. The average time Devi took for extracting all of these cube roots was just six seconds, with a range of two to 10 seconds.'”

Comment: A form of highly functional autism. IQ can be raised by proper education to a degree, but this state is from birth and a gift.