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Friday math movie - Mathemagic

By Murray Bourne, 01 Feb 2008

This week's movie comes from TED Talks:

In a lively show, "mathemagician" Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares in his head, performs a massive mental calculation, and guesses a few birth days

This reminds me of Vedic Math and Trachtenberg math.

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