Frenchman finds 13th root of 200 digit number in record time

[Massive Quasars]

"[Alexis] Lemaire, a 27-year-old doctoral student in artificial intelligence from Reims, near Paris, sat at a laptop computer that randomly selected the figure and displayed it on the screen. The number was so long it ran over 17 lines. Lemaire, who says he doesn't consider himself a nerd or a geek, then took just over a minute to identify two quadrillion, 397 trillion, 207 billion, 667 million, 966 thousand, 701 as the 13th root."
edit: http://www.physorg.com/news114363930.html

rofl, this guy is a character.

thanks PH

[Canidae]

Wrong link: http://www.physorg.com/news114363930.html

[Canidae]

He practices regularly and jogs every day, doesn't drink coffee or alcohol and avoids foods that are high in sugar or fat -- to help him think faster.

He forgot to mention he handles his own multiplication device because the world isn't full of Madame Curies who can tolerate his nerd existence.
That is the problem with the human race.
They need to start milking smart guys like this and inseminate more social females to populate this world with more evolutionarily upright people.
Guys like this they barely dwell in this world before disappearing from the genepool like fireflies in a hot summer night.

Now what the hell can we do with 13th roots?

[Massive Quasars]

Well, much as I'm compelled to make wider societal prescriptions near every chance I get, this was just a light-hearted look at the self-assured nature of Monsieur Lemaire.

[plained]

what does it have to do with you being a stupid filthgy pedo tho?

[Ryoki]

We have an intern here that studies AI as well... the dude is scary intelligent

We have him working on stuff that would take normal people ages to get into - this guy started working on it in his second week and has actually improved the process significantly by now... impressive stuff for a shy 20 year old kid.