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Sunday, February 20, 2005

Gay autistic savant Daniel Tammet is amazing

tammet Daniel Tammet set a new British and European record not long ago by reciting the mathematical expression pi to more than 22,000 decimal places. Tammet, 25, connects his unique mental abilities to epileptic seizures he had as a child. While learning the number was "actually rather easy," Tammet is recognized as a "savant" - one of a small group of people capable of extraordinary mental feats linked to a medical condition. A fact not often mentioned about him is that he's also gay. [More][Date: 15-Feb-05 ]

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