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The answer: 2,407,899,893,032,210

Opinion
Dec 11, 20071 min

And that’s the easy part, relatively speaking.

The question: What’s the 13th root of a random 200-digit number that we’re not going to reproduce here because it’s 200 digits?

The not so easy part, relatively speaking: Alexis Lemaire, 27, completed this mind-boggling calculation exclusively within the confines of his head.

And now for the hard part: The man did it in just over 70 seconds, bettering his own world record by a couple of clicks.

Meanwhile, every month, an ordinary checkbook kicks my butt.