Corrected entry: When Charlie sees a small-town doctor to get some advice how to deal with Raymond, the doctor asks Raymond to do some mathematical stunts. He multiplies 312*123 and 4343*1234 without thinking, which is unbelievable enough even for an autistic savant, but the square root of 2130 with 8 decimals after the dot, again without a bit of thinking, is certainly too much. (00:59:50)
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Correction: Raymond's abilities are exaggerated, but not as much as you think. See, for example, http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~changc/page2_5.html which describes a man who can give the square root of a 4 digit number in 4 seconds (although it doesn't say to what precision). In the film, Raymond thinks for 2 seconds or so about the square-root, so his skills are not that unbelieveable.
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