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When was Shakuntala Devi's Guinness record recognized posthumously?

  • 30 July 2020

  • 30 June 2019

  • 30 August 2018

  • 30 October 2016

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On 30 July 2020, the Guinness World Records posthumously recognized Indian mathematician Shakuntala Devi as the "fastest human calculator" after 54 years. She had broken the record for calculating 13 digits of pi mentally in 1976.
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