do you known Thomas fuller?
Thomas Fuller, an African who was 14 when he was taken into slavery in 1724, was frequently referred to as the "Virginia Calculator" because of his amazing capacity to figure out challenging mathematical problems in his head.
When asked the number of seconds in a year and a half, he replied in around two minutes with 47,304,000. When asked again how many seconds a man who was 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours old had lived, he responded in a minute and a half, giving the response 2,210,500,800.
One of the men corrected Fuller, saying the answer was considerably smaller, as he was solving the puzzles on paper. The leap year was inserted, and Fuller quickly retorted, "Top, massa, you forget de leap year."
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