Kanpur:
Dilpreet Kaur, known as ‘Calculator girl’ was presented the certificate by Limca Book of Records for creating two more new records including a World record and a National record on Thursday. The certificates were presented by district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma in Civil Lines area of the city.
Dilpreet, a resident Gumti area of the city, had solved one digit hundred row addition in just 15.81 seconds, which is a World record and two-digit 50 row addition in just 21.08 seconds which comes under National record category of Limca Book of Records. “In just 15.81 seconds, the little girl solved the complex sum breaking the previous World record of 19.23 seconds, which was of Spain,” said Anant Kasibhatla, member of the Limca Book of Records team.
Similarly, she solved two-digit 50 row addition in just 11.23 seconds thus registering her name for another National record, he added.
A student of class VIII at Huddard High School in Civil Lines area of the city, Dilpreet started solving maths problems when she was in class II. “She started exhibiting her talent from her early childhood,” said Dilpreet’s father Manjeet Singh. “Looking at her passion for complex subject like Maths we did our best to support her,” he added.
Dilpreet, who solves around 5,000 Maths problems daily, credits her parents, who are into teaching profession, as her inspiration.
“I want to become a world class Mathematician,” said Dilpreet, further adding that she wants to join the IIT.
“To improve her skills, we guided her to follow ancient abacus theory for solving multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square root and cube root. But, we did not know that her hard work would set a new record,” her mother Simran Kaur told TOI. Earlier, she had solved 100 division sums in just 96 seconds and got herself registered for the Limca Book of Records on June 20, 2015. She had also solved 1,000 sums of division in just 17 minutes.
District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma among others, witnessed the creation of these two records.
“We all are proud of Dilpreet and wish her a great career ahead as she has miles to go,” said KB Vincent principal Huddard High School. “District magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma had also assured Dilpreet to get some time from Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for exhibiting her talent in front of him,” said Dilpreet’s parents.
source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Kanpur / Faiz Siddiqui / TNN / June 17th, 2016