| Show I i ti THIS INDIANA I f MAN A I B fi MATHEMATICAL WONDER i lf l A 11 J c P V ITU of ot o Mil MU Milford MUtt tt tt A ford tord utility thc tho mathematical wonder who multiplies lI up to 1000 the i i same HI M a the tt ordinary na 1 Individual han bun bundles handte the ot of t Is I In HI tho city this Kits week weel says ny the tiit th Indianapolis olis News j Uc f i 1 I 1 lay claim to being tho the mathematical j l I ical wonder of Ut the tho United States he after ho ni rn had bin mentally the th problem H Til problem had hen IWEn written down by h thu L skeptical editor who Is III al ni alwan nie e t ways wan from froni MissoUri when U It to tott tt 4 ran his bin uv tye over nor tile the and said Those rho e 11 are oro j f It hardly for the problems of p lire lifo but bul hero UI In the thu 1 and ten after tin piece of pa JiLl por PilI boon ben pasted ed to him the titian iY Lint dill editor It tuck with the answer 4 written below the thu th figures 39 I l dont want to e egotistical r tL aid Orl lint hut It If you ou wilt will spend two or II three bourn houri you will rind lind that that Is correct Hut Mill Mil the tho wonder a man hns hn anything but hut n a nt HUP HUIJ 1 porting the tho th title tho mathematical wonder r of the thu mind es estL tL J U is thin so iO o In hut his state tL when thC tile se him Inuring all alli i i lit of the time and multiplying Hums Hum Ilk Ii 1 that even tho lulL tr try to net get hold i of him and Ins nM lilt t that he IM is isu u crazy Ihus far I ule hac t to keep ket at liberty but one can never neer tell tei what will happen U it U la true that often orten appears abnormally 11 und POd his hili lips keep He lie Ix is at itt times on In his hla mental multiplication table blue When most folks have havo nothing to todo ilo do they the tire are thinking about th lr girls or the th folks folka at RI or III their troubles When I have hat nothing to do I am working on i mental mathematical processes In spare I have learned the tho mul multiplication I by bi b healt up to 1000 1001 and tUilt within tho the next n 11 livo vo years ear I shall lia hn 1 It down by heart up UI to tn Most only KO go us IIiI far tar as all IH 14 I inn now no able to handle DrIll problems r lems up III In tho the Vit vi viI I 11 III II Vm you dont know what luit a 11 In IS I or ur what It like lie Ho took a 1 pencil and wrote JOG 01 0 00 That ho lie Bald lii 18 H I i tin n It I mu us t mil mH millions lions I billions Ii I I lions trillions tn Ii Ions Ilu ii lions lii I II lit III I ii 1101 lotus If lions B sept II oc oe nonillions lions n I juggles tho the a 1114 1111 H tho ordinary Individual does docs thou minus hn he wax was taken to thu tho th east cast eastby by professors of or tho the University of the tiro U Yale classed him with the 10 or 01 12 1 mout of or history Those Tho woh have followed his hl career will 1111 recall that when he his was disco discovered ered cr d eight years eurs ago thure was a 1 agrait Kraut groat deal deni eI ul of ot speculation ax as to tho the stability of or his mint mind It U was uis pointed out that mont most of the were ero mono maniacs knowing nothing but hut and not being belli tibia often otten to tell how hall they solved their Those Tho o who know knew when V hen he hu Hist at Ut attracted state attention and amul know him today have no uio doubt that Ma his mind Is normal nominal In other lints He lie not only ani writes much better Fetter than thun of or thu the people do elo who lLO write writ occasionally for publication but his Is lit KOCH good goodlie lie ilu states S clearly all nil kinds of or comfier commer commercial cial propositions In which he ho uses lie liS Ho lie converses well IVell on general subjects when ha ho IM is drawn from his absorbing study HUldy of If HU Ills Is h remark remarkable able and clearly the work nark of or ordinary calculators Hardly less ies noteworthy than the rap rapidity rapIdity with which ha lie salvos problem Is tho thio memory ho exhibits In III thu tho numbers rind and results In III hits his mind mindA A day ilay after atter he has hUll been bien aked n liel to mul multiply any tin number guy he lue can restate tho the problem correct correctly ly Jy from memory and also talk of or the tile result of or his previous calculations lie He makes nil all of lila hIs calculation mentally only writes write the answers down Such a II proposition as lIS the thi one given Riven Is I II solved I as ns fatt falt as n a li lit lie can write do down n nha the ha and ho writes them thum very rapidly I conic callie to I town tIlls this week he said saida to a the News New with some problems problem for tho hu teachers of cu that I be he belIeve believe lIeve levo will defy the skill of or the best of them ham I 1 have obtained the answers to toha Ii 0 the ha problems and they will interest those hote who like to The Tue fir l It what be the compound Interest t on 11 U 1 at It 0 IJ per vel cent from rom the time of tho the birth of or Christ to toha tiis ha present time ItI I Z would only suggest that those T who II UfO must not he be afraid of or the In lit which tiry will wiil become In Involved for the amount would make o over ver S Jt H will bo be profit profitable able fr people who are uro paying Interest to work on this problem for tor It will show them thorn what whitt n II mountain com coIn compound compound pound Interest will build This was WIlS the most difficult problem I have ever tIr floured figured out It tools tool me Ins half hutt an ISO hour |
