Labels:circuit board | computer circuit | traffic light OCR: Alexander Aitken, Alexander Mathematics Aitken. the Professor Prodigy of Mathematics at BO 800 .001 noo Edinburgh University who died in 1967 was one of the best 12 00000 635 1269 660 modern calculating prodigies He trained himself to remember 80 100,000,00 1,000 decimal places and could recite them forwards or backwards. His account of how he carried out a problem given to him ,000,00 by his children to multiply 987 654.321 by 123. 456.789 was deceptively simple "I saw in a flash that 987 654. 321 times 81 equals 80.000.000.001: and so multiplied 123 456 789 by this simple matter and divided Ithe answer by81 Answer ,001 21 932 631 .112 635 269 721 The whole thing can hardly have taken more than half : a minute. known
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