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Although she was called the "Human Computer"  She said, human mind has incomparably much capabilities than ..

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She wrote the book "The world of homosexuals" after her husband came out. The book wasn't well received when it came out but is now considered ahead of its time it terms of Queer Allyship. “Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so. It is not the individual whose sexual relations depart from the social custom who is immoral—but those who are immoral who would penalize him for being different.”

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Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013), the subject of a new film released on Amazon Prime on Friday, has always been associated with an element of mystery. She was not formally educated, and was far from exceptional in cognitive tests, and yet she could perform calculations with large numbers in a few seconds, sometimes instantly.
By all accounts, Shakuntala Devi was entirely self-taught. Daughter of a circus performer, she travelled with her parents since she was three years old, and is said to have cultivated her calculating abilities while performing card tricks. Once she began to extract cube roots rapidly in her head, she became a performer exhibiting her skills. By the time she was a teenager, she was already travelling around the world, usually before audiences in colleges and universities.

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Devi strove to simplify numerical calculations for students.

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Her father passed down his maths ability to her and all her 8 siblings were also extrordinary at math but quickly gave it up after she left home at 15

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In Hinduism, Shakuntala is the wife of Dushyanta and the mother of Emperor Bharata.
Shakuntala Devi attained universal fame when she demonstrate ..

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“the human computer” for her ability to perform lengthy calculations in her head,

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Shakuntala Devi - Official Trailer | Vidya Balan, Sanya Malhotra | Amazon Prime Video | July 31

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She wrote the book The World Of Homosexuals, which is considered the first study of homosexuality in India.

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writer and human calculator. Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London.
On 4 November 2013, Devi was honoured with a Google Doodle on what would have been her 84th birthday.

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She was independent and learned without any formal education herself. Daughter was brought a house in Hyde park for £400,000 and renovated it. Her daughter did not like mathematics unlike her mother.