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The Hindu
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Sam Paul A.

Love of maths earns Alappuzha native Guinness World Records title

Not everyone has a head for calculation and figures let alone computing complex numbers in seconds. Give Vivek Raj, a mental math expert from Alappuzha, any single or double-digit number and he can add or multiply it to itself over and over to reach up to seven digits (addition) and up to 32 digits (multiplication) in a jiffy.

While performing addition, he can produce a seven-digit result in 10 seconds. In multiplication, he can produce a 32-digit number in a-minute-and-a-half.

His passion for numbers recently earned him a Guinness World Records (GWR) title for memorising the longest number sequence in four seconds.

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