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To: The Wharf who wrote (22889)	4/9/2005 4:36:15 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81488

Darleen > This makes me terribly angry as it should not be. I don't think you should be angry because there are some very clever people in this world and no-one has a monopoly on them. expatica.com >>A 24-year-old French student claimed a world record on Wednesday after he became the first person to figure out the 13th root of a 200-digit number by mental arithmetic alone. Alexis Lemaire, who is studying for a master's degree in computer studies at the University of Reims, eastern France, took 48 minutes and 51 seconds to arrive at the 16-figure answer. Lemaire described the 200-digit task as "the most difficult challenge in mental arithmetic in history," as there were a potential 400,000 billion permutations in the answer. The 13th root is a number that must be multiplied by itself 13 times in order to equal a given value.<<