{"id":235,"date":"2004-08-17T21:46:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T02:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=235"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"you_must_know_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/17\/you_must_know_s\/","title":{"rendered":"You must know some Vedic methods?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is bad enough that the women I meet at bars sexualize me by assuming that just because I am brown, I must have Tantric skillz. NOW my collegues at school are going to ask me, and all of you other brown scientists and engineers, if we are skilled in the Vedic methods<\/a> as well:<\/p>\n\n

\nWhat is the square of 85? In an instant, a 17-year-old boy said without blinking, “7,225.” \n
\nKamlesh Shetty had used a trick from a quaint concept called Vedic math, a compilation of arithmetic shortcuts believed to have been written by ancient Indians who lived centuries before Christ, during a glorious period in Indian history called the Vedic Age. Its math has now crawled into the 21st century to further Shetty’s dream of cracking a nasty engineering entrance exam.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I don’t think it is a coincidence that the word “nasty” was used in the above paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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