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Mental Calculators From History

  • Aitken, Alexander Craig,
  • Bidder, George Parker
  • Buxton, Jedediah
  • Colburn, Zerah
  • Dase, Johann Zacharias
  • Deshong, Peter M.
  • De Grote, Herbert
  • Devi, Shakuntala
  • Diamandi, Pericles
  • Dysart, Willis (a.k.a. Willie the Wizard)
  • Eberstark, Hans
  • Finkelstein, Salo
  • Fuller, Thomas
  • Gauss, Carl Friedrich
  • Griffith, Arthur F.
  • Inaudi, Jacques
  • Klein, Wim (a.k.a. Willem Klein)
  • McCartney, Daniel
  • Ruckle, Gottfried
  • Safford, Truman Henry

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