A Free and Moral Agent

August 16, 2004

Wired News: Modern Students Devour Old Math

Wired News: Modern Students Devour Old Math:
MUMBAI, India -- What is the square of 85? In an instant, a 17-year-old boy said without blinking, '7,225.'

Kamlesh Shetty had used a trick from a quaint concept called Vedic math, a ompilation of arithmetic shortcuts believed to have been written by ancient Indians who lived centuries before Christ, during a glorious period in Indian history called the Vedic Age. Its math has now crawled into the 21st century to further Shetty's dream of cracking a nasty engineering entrance exam.

Cool. I should check into this.

posted by Tom at 6:27:00 AM

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