{"id":72040,"date":"2019-10-08T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=72040"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T10:28:11","slug":"vidya-balan-to-visit-london-college-where-shakuntala-devi-created-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/vidya-balan-to-visit-london-college-where-shakuntala-devi-created-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Vidya Balan to visit London college where Shakuntala Devi created record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vidya Balan is heading to Imperial College London, where math genius Shakuntala Devi received her Guinness Book of World Records achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actor, who is set to play Shakuntala Devi in the upcoming biopic, has been invited by the prestigious institute as a guest to interact with the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 18, 1980, Shakuntala Devi demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College London, and correctly answered it in 28 seconds, thereby earning her a spot in Guinness Book of World Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cImperial College London is an integral part of Shakuntala Devi\u2019s life, this is the same college where she got her Guinness Book of World Records achievement. I am honoured that I am getting an opportunity to visit this institute,\u201d Vidya said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mathematical wizard was known for her ability to make incredibly swift calculations. Shakuntala Devi\u2019s genius was first discovered at the age of five, when she solved a math problem for 18-year-old students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vidya Balan is heading to Imperial College London, where math genius Shakuntala Devi received her Guinness Book of World Records achievement. The actor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72042,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72040\/revisions\/72042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}