I know right, it's not exactly faster than a computer, it's faster than a human using a computer. A true test of the speed, is to prepare the whole length of code that needs to be decided by the computer, then hit go as soon as you finish telling scott the question.
+Francis in the Closet Ah, but then you have to compensate for how quickly he can actually say it. He's said before that when he begins calculating really fast, it's his speech speed which slows him down.
You cant beat a computer, its just human reactions that let us down, if the machine worked by itself without us having to press on it, Scott would lose everytime.
Frontpage Computers have the advantage of technological advancements. Give around a 100-200 years where we have computers that WILL beat any human brain. Not to mention artificial intelligence. There probably is a computer out there right now that we don't know of with unimaginable power.
In just a few years, we'll have the 1st Exaflop computer, capable of a billion billion calculations per second. It would be capable of doing more math calculations in a second than Scott could do in a million lifetimes. So obviously, Scott loses out big time. Obviously any computer is way faster than Scott, as has been the case for decades. He beats out people using a calculator, but not an automated machine.
Doing big things isn't everyone's dream, lots of people actually prefers a quiet life - those who want big games are often those without this kind of gift.
I think the "he's faster than a computer" is a bit exaggerated. He's good at certain specific things but what he can do is very basic stuff for microprocessors that literally do millions of operations per second without a sweat. Still, that's impressive for a human brain.
This guy deserves more recognition than he deserves. He did elementary level math, a lot of people can do much faster than. He is a joke in comparison to kids who learn to use the mental soroban.
hmm, to explain this I would say he shuts down his eyesight to get fast math going on at the space where his eyes ussually calculate the position. It's quite brilliant, but that makes me think.. I think other people can do this too.. It requires focus to forget about thoughts and visual images that are asking information from the eyesight of your brain to make it work. So, when you see those numbers, you'll SEE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, but he gets those numbers from the amount of angles inside the shape from the original drawn symbols by the romans, he gets the information from a different place so his calculation is possible at his visual position is calculated. If you're able to do this on a even faster place inside your brain, which would probably be the calculation of the position of your muscles. Then you get the problem that you can't calculate at the time as you speak. For a normal person the brain is calculation at area 44, which I think is the place where your brain gives a boolean as result. It calculates if it's true or false and improves if needed. This is a slow way of calculating. If you know the algoritm is correct, then you don't worry about that. So you think faster. Using area 44, will not be useable for this task as it gives 2 results, you need something with more capacity, like the eyesight or muscles position calculation. Also, the brain will not be effected if you having an eye-blink reflex.
Johannus wilhelmus Hey! pretty nit comment! I never thought on this but is quite an explanation! Can you elaborate a little bit further on the connection image - calculus ? Where did you get this information? Can you provide me with some useful links? If you want, we can talk private - on Skype or email: burghiupamant@gmail.com
They teach you to do math backwards in school. You read from left to right, but they teach you right to left. That doesn't make sense. You have to calculate the whole thing and keep it in your head until you are done. If you do it forward, you can write it down WHILE you're calculating. I wish they would teach the fast method. No wonder so many adults say they can't do math.
so his area of working out is moved into another area in the brain (reflex area for balance, its like a noise we hear and then be able to work what's that type of noise instantaneous)
Because he wants to revolutionize the way people first approach and learn math. He doesn't use his ability for himself but to help others possibly achieve at least a much higher comfortability with arithmetic (and maybe even higher level math) than they normally would have.
Well, I think Scott would need several more years with these kids to turn them into mini Scotts. But I do understand what you are saying. If Scott can inspire these youngsters to find the fascination and the value of math as he has, then that in itself can be a gift. I could only imagine a world where kids get out of middle school with the math skills that Scott has. It would even out the playing field way too much. Some greedy corporate guys would find a way to dissemble it.
E Bach Put the kids in soroban mental math training centres and they can beat Scott after three years of training. 15 minutes of practice everday, 1-2 hours of training at the centre a week.
Why is this guy teaching grade school? This guy could be a code breaker for the CIA. He could be ripping off casinos. He could be doing so many other big things with this kind of gift.
The reason why he does math quickly is because the side of his brain where it allows you to move your body (i.e. feet, legs, move arms) also does the calculations. Which is why it's fucking fast.
As impressive as this is i cant see the practical part in this. I much rather have a degree in mathematics than a human calculator, math is not number crunching its all about solving problems and thinking outside of the box. Still good job Scott Flansburg :)
If someone does a 6 digit x 6 digit calculation and gets one digit out, then that is not as clever as knowing 1 + 1 = 2! Because the latter is a CORRECT answer!
Cube root easy imagine this scenario. 87 x 87 x 87 Remember all cube of 1 - 9 (much easier than u think trust me) 1=1,2=8,3=27,4=64,5=125,6=216,7=343,8=512,9=729. So you look at the numbers before the comma and c which it is closer to, yo can't round up. So 658 = 8 For the next digit look at the last number and remember this: 1=1,2=2,3=7,4=4,5=5,6=6,7=3,8=2,9=9 they come from the last digit of the cubes of 1-9 so 658503 658 = 8 503=7 87 :D
ThePerfect1077 No freaking idea how people give him the fastest human calculator when kids with 3 years of soroban mental math training can easily beat him.
You didn't understand. In the video says... "FASTER THAN A CALCULATOR" Calculator: a device for performing mathematical calculations, esp an electronic device that can be held in the hand (by definition). The device, not a person who uses a calculator. It might be obviously faster than a human pressing buttons... it might take seconds for someone to press all of them. But it's not faster than a processor which makes calculations in nanoseconds xd
Use your free time and learn to enjoy learning and improving yourself. That's a really good life lesson. Also, how can you expect to progress without spending time? That's humans today for ya ;)
How are any of those things bigger than this? And his gift isn't to be good at that kind of math. He's just very fast at putting a numbers together. His brain computes numbers that we all can compute, he just does it faster. There's a lot of other "human calculators" that are a lot more impressive. However I haven't seen if he has done any other more advanced math. He probably has done something more than basic math, but hey, I haven't seen it. There's a lot of fast thinkers.
comment fail Sheldon Cooper. If the students or "stupid people" left the room and left the calculators laying on the desk untouched, you may be surprised to notice the calculators would not display the correct answers - ever. By design, a typical hand held "calculator" requires a human (with working eyes and fingers) to function or "calculate". At no point did they claim his brain calculated math faster than a silicon processor and they obviously would have used a different test if they had.
He did that with his practice because practice makes a man perfect . He always do the practice of maths so he also get the perfection to do any problem of maths
@@gadgetboyplaysmc His love for math is superb and this comes from his goal of teaching kids basically an inspiration to be able to teach something that kids don't know or we don't probably know. His dream is actually teaching how math works and why it's like this. Do you think mathematicians actually asked and researched the origin of math better than Scott? Well you can say some actually thought about it andquestioned it. But they didn't truly researched it and figure it out. And some mathematicians just do their jobs just to teach and get paid, I'm not saying that most mathematicians are like this.
You're saying a brilliant mathematical mind would be better off in economics than say mathematics or physics? Hell, he could make more money gambling than with economics.
well yeah but then again hes not the only one with these gifts and brilliant people that are doing things like ripping off casinos or codebreaking for the CIA are people that you will never hear of.
If you insist on being pedantic, they could have said "faster than USING a calculator" but should have been obvious. If they had compared him to a processor, the equation variables would still need to be inputed somehow (requiring a human) and that would have been just as slow unless they cheated and programmed it ahead of time or they used voice recognition eliminating the need for manual data entry. But then it would not have been "guy vs calculator" anymore nullifying your original point. :P
Ikr, ive seen quite a bit of these people that could totally abuse the shit outa their powers but then use it as a mere hobby lol. But hey thats their thing and i guess greed is mine haha
teacher: you are not allowed calculators
Scott: mmm ok
He walks out in shame cause he cant use his brain
faster than a human uses a calculator
I know right, it's not exactly faster than a computer, it's faster than a human using a computer.
A true test of the speed, is to prepare the whole length of code that needs to be decided by the computer, then hit go as soon as you finish telling scott the question.
+Francis in the Closet Ah, but then you have to compensate for how quickly he can actually say it. He's said before that when he begins calculating really fast, it's his speech speed which slows him down.
You cant beat a computer, its just human reactions that let us down, if the machine worked by itself without us having to press on it, Scott would lose everytime.
+Kasbiu Gaming Exactly.
+Kasbiu Gaming That's because his speed of speech is too slow.
+GeneralPirate25 _ Yes u r true , But comparison should be done between to equal things, people , person , etc . Scott is amazing !!!
Frontpage Computers have the advantage of technological advancements. Give around a 100-200 years where we have computers that WILL beat any human brain. Not to mention artificial intelligence.
There probably is a computer out there right now that we don't know of with unimaginable power.
In just a few years, we'll have the 1st Exaflop computer, capable of a billion billion calculations per second. It would be capable of doing more math calculations in a second than Scott could do in a million lifetimes. So obviously, Scott loses out big time. Obviously any computer is way faster than Scott, as has been the case for decades. He beats out people using a calculator, but not an automated machine.
I dont want to brag or anything, but im faster than a potato at calculating.
Me too
I'm 0.000000000001 faster than a baby that isn't even born!
Doing big things isn't everyone's dream, lots of people actually prefers a quiet life - those who want big games are often those without this kind of gift.
The fact that calculator can't do anything by itself just proves how much better the human brain (all but yours) is.
I think the "he's faster than a computer" is a bit exaggerated. He's good at certain specific things but what he can do is very basic stuff for microprocessors that literally do millions of operations per second without a sweat. Still, that's impressive for a human brain.
Yeah I know, it's more like "faster than a human can use a calculator"
I have been doing this since age of 11 , can somebody tell me how to get recognition ?
start by doing a video proving your abilities
This guy deserves more recognition than he deserves.
He did elementary level math, a lot of people can do much faster than.
He is a joke in comparison to kids who learn to use the mental soroban.
I think his brain developed that way because he done math differently since he was a kid and calculating numbers in his head. It's like brain workout.
hmm, to explain this I would say he shuts down his eyesight to get fast math going on at the space where his eyes ussually calculate the position. It's quite brilliant, but that makes me think.. I think other people can do this too.. It requires focus to forget about thoughts and visual images that are asking information from the eyesight of your brain to make it work. So, when you see those numbers, you'll SEE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, but he gets those numbers from the amount of angles inside the shape from the original drawn symbols by the romans, he gets the information from a different place so his calculation is possible at his visual position is calculated. If you're able to do this on a even faster place inside your brain, which would probably be the calculation of the position of your muscles. Then you get the problem that you can't calculate at the time as you speak.
For a normal person the brain is calculation at area 44, which I think is the place where your brain gives a boolean as result. It calculates if it's true or false and improves if needed. This is a slow way of calculating. If you know the algoritm is correct, then you don't worry about that. So you think faster. Using area 44, will not be useable for this task as it gives 2 results, you need something with more capacity, like the eyesight or muscles position calculation. Also, the brain will not be effected if you having an eye-blink reflex.
Johannus wilhelmus Hey! pretty nit comment! I never thought on this but is quite an explanation! Can you elaborate a little bit further on the connection image - calculus ? Where did you get this information? Can you provide me with some useful links? If you want, we can talk private - on Skype or email: burghiupamant@gmail.com
It's more a theory, from all the things I've heard, but it's very likely it can be true.
I was at the Doctors the other day useing my hands to work out a future appointment, the staff did look surprised, that's me!
rip Stan Lee :(
They teach you to do math backwards in school. You read from left to right, but they teach you right to left. That doesn't make sense. You have to calculate the whole thing and keep it in your head until you are done. If you do it forward, you can write it down WHILE you're calculating. I wish they would teach the fast method. No wonder so many adults say they can't do math.
After the brain scan, he could never perform calculations at the same speed ever again.
yes lol
He teaches grade school so that the students can do what he does. Think of it as mini Scotts.
so his area of working out is moved into another area in the brain (reflex area for balance, its like a noise we hear and then be able to work what's that type of noise instantaneous)
if he get married that kid might inherit this so lucky
Because he wants to revolutionize the way people first approach and learn math. He doesn't use his ability for himself but to help others possibly achieve at least a much higher comfortability with arithmetic (and maybe even higher level math) than they normally would have.
well he definitely knows how to divide the legs and get a square root
Well, I think Scott would need several more years with these kids to turn them into mini Scotts. But I do understand what you are saying. If Scott can inspire these youngsters to find the fascination and the value of math as he has, then that in itself can be a gift.
I could only imagine a world where kids get out of middle school with the math skills that Scott has. It would even out the playing field way too much. Some greedy corporate guys would find a way to dissemble it.
E Bach Put the kids in soroban mental math training centres and they can beat Scott after three years of training. 15 minutes of practice everday, 1-2 hours of training at the centre a week.
"Do you think he's a human calculator?"
Yes, but I'm not sure about the human part.
Why is this guy teaching grade school?
This guy could be a code breaker for the CIA. He could be ripping off casinos. He could be doing so many other big things with this kind of gift.
Such a gift would be wasted in such a field as economics.
The reason why he does math quickly is because the side of his brain where it allows you to move your body (i.e. feet, legs, move arms) also does the calculations. Which is why it's fucking fast.
As impressive as this is i cant see the practical part in this. I much rather have a degree in mathematics than a human calculator, math is not number crunching its all about solving problems and thinking outside of the box. Still good job Scott Flansburg :)
he at his math exam:
teacher, alright guys, its has 50 questions, time starts now.
2sec later he: Done..
past :)
I want this guy to come to my ECON 201 exam next week
He must have been amazing at around the world
Holy Fuck Dude!! Your right! It could be the start of future humans
If someone does a 6 digit x 6 digit calculation and gets one digit out, then that is not as clever as knowing 1 + 1 = 2!
Because the latter is a CORRECT answer!
Cube root easy imagine this scenario.
87 x 87 x 87
Remember all cube of 1 - 9 (much easier than u think trust me)
1=1,2=8,3=27,4=64,5=125,6=216,7=343,8=512,9=729.
So you look at the numbers before the comma and c which it is closer to, yo can't round up. So 658 = 8
For the next digit look at the last number and remember this:
1=1,2=2,3=7,4=4,5=5,6=6,7=3,8=2,9=9
they come from the last digit of the cubes of 1-9
so 658503
658 = 8 503=7
87 :D
ThePerfect1077 No freaking idea how people give him the fastest human calculator when kids with 3 years of soroban mental math training can easily beat him.
But does he know calculus?
no
i knew a kid who could do this it happened after he fell on his head and was in hospital for weeks when he got out he was like scott.
03:24 Looks like she's terrified of him... ^^
This dude is the next towards human evolution
Hmm, perhaps we can place other things in that section of the brain -- and each of us can be incredibly gifted at something.
1:02 85 times 95.... "8075 is that alright?"
1:27 95 times 85...."8075." I knew this one too, I am a genius.
Caculus involves many steps, I've sure he could do them in 1/1000th the time most people do them.
You didn't understand. In the video says... "FASTER THAN A CALCULATOR"
Calculator: a device for performing mathematical calculations, esp an electronic device that can be held in the hand (by definition). The device, not a person who uses a calculator. It might be obviously faster than a human pressing buttons... it might take seconds for someone to press all of them. But it's not faster than a processor which makes calculations in nanoseconds xd
Damn... he could probably walk into a casino and demand millions just to never set foot inside again. And then walk to the next casino...
That's just about what casinos do already...
first man ADAM was able to control all his mind.
now you understand why some people have "special abillity" ? you all have the potential
I wonder what would happen if he had to do math with pi. Not just 3.14 but with all of the 20 thousand known numbers after the decimal in pi.
probably never lost a math contest
No, he would be shit at code breaking, he is trying to inspire the children i think he has a good heart.
Loved how the neuroscientist professor went all like: "How did you do that? This is impossible. You can't do this."
I need his brain in my pc, Signal Core
let's just take him on math test
Even my math teacher in college with 40+ years lecturing just math doesn't have this ability...
Use your free time and learn to enjoy learning and improving yourself. That's a really good life lesson. Also, how can you expect to progress without spending time? That's humans today for ya ;)
Is it weird that I'm the only one liking your 7 year comment.
What do I need to do to speed up my math & memory?
Hit my head and hope brain cells "reconnects" like Scott Flansburg or Ron White?
How are any of those things bigger than this?
And his gift isn't to be good at that kind of math. He's just very fast at putting a numbers together. His brain computes numbers that we all can compute, he just does it faster.
There's a lot of other "human calculators" that are a lot more impressive. However I haven't seen if he has done any other more advanced math. He probably has done something more than basic math, but hey, I haven't seen it. There's a lot of fast thinkers.
no, he should abuse his skill developing crazy computer/robot algorithms
How could he do that?? That was so fast his brain is very advance and faster than the scientific calculator gosh i can't believe it
Leopoldo Lopez Sr. Kids who learn to do math using mental soroban can do much faster.
This guy is a beginner level to them lol.
he is one of the X-MEN!
comment fail Sheldon Cooper. If the students or "stupid people" left the room and left the calculators laying on the desk untouched, you may be surprised to notice the calculators would not display the correct answers - ever. By design, a typical hand held "calculator" requires a human (with working eyes and fingers) to function or "calculate". At no point did they claim his brain calculated math faster than a silicon processor and they obviously would have used a different test if they had.
Um, 6:02 he got it wrong. I did it slower than him in my head but he got the last digit wrong. Where is my medal? Or cookie? I'll take a cookie.
he would be sick in a casino if he could count the cards ;P
a calculator is only as fast as you can hit the buttons
I gotta second that motion.
nope you don't cause he got it right, if you listen carefully you can hear he says the right numbers, he just says them very fast
Besides, i'm not saying he's not superb... he's incredibly fast...
My area 44 is like area 51 OFF LIMITS!
Hey am i only the one to notice that the Neurologist looks like Coach Popovich in Spurs? XD
this is like good will hunting...but better...
He needs to have a lot of kids! NOW!
I was wouldn't if he could look at a building and calculate how big it is
He's faster than my iPad
He probably shoved a calculator chip inside his nose.
Aliens are here.
What I would like to know is if he can do mathematics like calculus.
He probably has done all those things already.
Shakuntla devi ka male version
Can he still do the math as fast if his brain is busy with, say, balancing on a unicycle?
And Doctor Havard has got a more amazing discovery...Scott has got cancer.
probably, he's teacher when he was in high school was Mr. Einstein. that what i guess :)
Lucky bastard!
He did that with his practice because practice makes a man perfect . He always do the practice of maths so he also get the perfection to do any problem of maths
mathematians do a lot of math too but they can't do what he can do. Why?
@@gadgetboyplaysmc His love for math is superb and this comes from his goal of teaching kids basically an inspiration to be able to teach something that kids don't know or we don't probably know. His dream is actually teaching how math works and why it's like this. Do you think mathematicians actually asked and researched the origin of math better than Scott? Well you can say some actually thought about it andquestioned it. But they didn't truly researched it and figure it out. And some mathematicians just do their jobs just to teach and get paid, I'm not saying that most mathematicians are like this.
You're saying a brilliant mathematical mind would be better off in economics than say mathematics or physics? Hell, he could make more money gambling than with economics.
thats a crime and isnt allowed.
Can i cheat off him at a math test?
He would be done when u pick ur pen up..
lol
@@d-24 Lolx😂😂
Genius
man i wish one day when i wake up i have his mathematics ablity lol
that guy ate calculator for lunch every day (kidding)T_T hes amazing !!!
well yeah but then again hes not the only one with these gifts and brilliant people that are doing things like ripping off casinos or codebreaking for the CIA are people that you will never hear of.
damn it should be a law this guy gets laid we need his genes out there
If you insist on being pedantic, they could have said "faster than USING a calculator" but should have been obvious. If they had compared him to a processor, the equation variables would still need to be inputed somehow (requiring a human) and that would have been just as slow unless they cheated and programmed it ahead of time or they used voice recognition eliminating the need for manual data entry. But then it would not have been "guy vs calculator" anymore nullifying your original point. :P
theres a glitch in the matrix...
Why are the worlds amazing people mostly short?.
Solve this:
Pi multiply by 34 divide by 3 Pi
get me the first 200 thousand digits.
11.33333333333. Easy
half mark, i said 200,000 digits!
+Hafeez BlackLeg The answer is 34.
can he calculate when he is doing sports and complex movement?
Check Shakuntala Devi he answer in a millisecond in a multidigit number
She not he sorry
Fuk NO ITS A ROBOT DAMNIT D:
error...... HE CAN'T BEAT a calculator, he beats the stupid people using it... no human in earth can beat the calculator speed.
please don't hit this guy head!
The God of Maths.
If you consider him to be the god of Maths then what would you call to Shakuntala Devi.
the god of math would be Gauss or Abel or someone else, calculating numbers is not math, math is much more than that
I hate it when he says "Super Umans"
Ikr, ive seen quite a bit of these people that could totally abuse the shit outa their powers but then use it as a mere hobby lol. But hey thats their thing and i guess greed is mine haha
Watching this videos make me hate myself more. Yea I get it, I'm not special in anyway, no super powers no shit.
plzzz do my math hw for the rest of the year!!!