This is how Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash became the world's fastest human calculator after suffering a skull fracture as a kid.
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00:005, 9, 6, 8, divide by 4.
00:07That's going to be 1, 4, 9, 2.
00:11I am Neelakanta Bhanuprakash and I am the world's fastest human calculator.
00:20A man buying 20 watermelons, a person trying to measure the height of a building from 50 metres away.
00:26I don't think people are that way.
00:31There is no day which goes by without you using the Pythagoras theorem.
00:35Maybe you not yourself are.
00:37But without trigonometry, there is no Wi-Fi, there is no 5G, there is no internet connectivity, there is no calling.
00:43What's a swimmer's favourite kind of math?
00:48Freestyle.
00:49Dive vision.
00:51I think he's smart.
01:01It's almost like the superhero Flash from DC.
01:05Everything around you slows down and you're quick and you're in zone.
01:08How do you solve any equation?
01:12Multiply both sides by zero.
01:31I was one of those children who were asked to do speed math calculations in front of people
01:37to sort of show off your abilities.
01:48If there's anything which I'm bad at, I think it's art.
01:51I really struggle drawing a circle which looks nice.
01:55In the next six years, I went on to break a bunch of world records.
02:04Shakuntala Devi, Bhanu Gekiya.
02:06Shakuntala Devi, Bhanu Gekiya.
02:24That's when I also got celebrated as the person who broke Shakuntala Devi's record because that happened a while ago.
02:30This is 3276, 1147, 6853, 858.
02:45The single worst thing, I think it's assuming that you're always up for calculation.
02:49I think I've seen a lot of people fling millions and millions of questions at me once every time saying
02:55You'll wake me up in the night, it's not like I'm going to answer you what 672 multiplied by 873 is in a minute
03:02because I'm not in that zone and it's fine.
03:12Where we teach children of the ages 6 to 16 how to become quicker and better at math.
03:17At least I'm on my journey to change how millions of children learn mathematics.
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