Fastest human computation
- Who
- Shakuntala Devi
- What
- 28 second(s)
- Where
- United Kingdom
- When
- 01 January 0001
The fastest human computation is 28 secs, and was achieved by Shakuntala Devi (India), successfully multiplying two randomly selected 13 digit numbers, at Imperial College London, UK, on 18 Jun 1980.
Mrs Shakuntala Devi of India correctly multiplied two 13-digit numbers (7,686,369,774,870 & 2,465,099,745,779) which were randomly selected by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London, on 18 Jun 1980; the feat took 28 seconds and the answer was 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730.