42:(39 seconds). On 23 November 2004, Mittring tried to beat Lemaire's record, but his time of 11.8 seconds was not counted as official, as one organization's rules had decided to stop recognizing records for root extraction of random numbers due to the difficulty of standardizing the challenge. Less than a month later (17 December 2004) Lemaire beat his own record, with a time of 3.625 seconds— this included the time it took him to read the number, calculate its root, and recount the answer. He found the 13th root of the 100-digit number 3,893,458,979,352,680,277,349,663,255,651,930,553,265,700,608,215,449,817,188,566,054,427,172,046,103,952,232,604,799,107,453,543,533, which is 45,792,573.
50:). Like an athlete, he trains his brain daily for this task. On 6 April 2005, he calculated the 13th root of a 200-digit number in 8 minutes 33 seconds. By 30 July 2007, Alexis got his time down to 77.99 seconds at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford and by 15 November his time was further decreased to 72.4 seconds. His latest achievement came on 10 December 2007, where he mentally extracted the 13th root of a random 200-digit number in 70.2 seconds. The so-called 'mathlete' produced the answer of 2,407,899,883,032,220 at London's Science Museum.
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