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To me, this picture sums up the 2010 Mental Calculation World Cup, which finished a few hours ago.

On the left is Jerry Newport, aged 61, a part-time taxi driver from Tucson, Arizona.

On the right is Priyanshi Somani, aged 11, from Gujurat, India.

They were the two big winners here, in Magdeburg, Germany, after two days of lots of mental calculation.

Priyanshi was the overall champion. And Jerry won the ‘most versatile calculator award’.

Priyanshi was also the youngest person in the tournament. Jerry was the oldest.

The results were amazing because Priyanshi was appearing for the first time and had only been properly practising for about a month!

She smashed the world record for square roots: becoming the first person ever to work out the square root of ten different six digit numbers, each to eight significant figures, in less that 15 minutes.

In fact, she worked them all out in only 6mins and 51secs. Astounding.

Jerry, who is nicknamed ‘the Whale’ and who was the inspiration for the 2005 movie Mozart and the Whale, has Asperger’s Syndrome. He was also appearing for the first time.

The other winners overall were, in second place: Marc Jornet Sanz, aged 16, from Spain.

And, in third, Alberto Coto, aged 40, from Spain.

Here are the three below:

Marc won the multiplication round with a world record: he calculated ten sums, which each were an 8-digit number multiplied by an 8-digit number, in 4 mins 56secs. Priyanshi was second – almost twice as far behind at 9mins and 48secs.

Alberto, who was overall winner last year, had to console himself with only being best in the addition round.

The other victor was Yusnier Viera from Cuba, below. He won the calendar calculation round: naming the day of the week of  48 randomly selected dates in history in one minute.

I will write up the event at length soon, and post it here. But for the time being, i wanted to get the pictures of these wonderful winners up asap.

Yusnier Viera: Calendar Boy