Calculate the 13th root of the 200-digit number in 72.4 seconds

French 27-year-old Alexis Lemaire broke the 77-second-old world record to produce accurate results within 72.4 seconds.

Lemaire is a graduate student in artificial intelligence. The laptop in front of him randomly displayed a 17-line number on the screen. Lemaire did not claim to be a player, but it took only 1 minute to recite the 13th root of this 200-digit number.

'The first digit is very easy, the last digit is easy, but the middle digits are really hard!' - An expert witnessed the incident admiring admiration.

'I use artificial intelligence on my own mind, rather than on a computer .' - Mr. Lemaire said - " I believe that almost anyone can do it, only that I am quick more just. Sometimes the multiplication, the mind works so fast that I have to take medicine to treat '.

Mr. Lemaire said his computational talent was discovered when he was 11 years old, but it did not help him to study mathematics well at school.

"I'm not at the top of the class. I only learn to be the main, mainly through reading," he said. I learn from the mistakes I make, just like I run a program in my head, to control my mind.

His most recent rival is a German. But he also confirmed that his record is hard to be overcome by any mathematician. 'It's too hard for them.' He thinks that most competitors can only calculate the square root of a 100-digit number.

Several banks and computer manufacturing companies have questioned the exploitation of Lemaire's special computing capabilities.

Alexis Lemaire's record (Photo: msn)

Thanh Le