The Bellarmine Math Wizard
First year student, Nick Thompson is very good at math. The man can take very complex numbers and compute the numbers in his head and get an answer within seconds. The finance major has been abnormally good in mathematics as far back as he can remember, figuring he had this special math talent in kindergarten. He has been testing out of math classes since the second grade.
Nick said, “Math was never hard for me I always seem to just understand the concept of numbers.”
The Louisville native is also a member of the Bellarmine University baseball team and that is how the secret got out about Nick being able to do crazy math problems in his head.
Teammate AJ Arnold said he played high school baseball with Thompson and new about his special talent. During a rain delay, he wanted to share Thompson’s talent with the rest of the Bellarmine team by randomly giving Nick a multiplication question. The team was astonished, not believing what they had just seen.
What started out at a joke, ended with the team in an uproar. The Bellarmine Baseball twitter page posted a video of Thompson dividing 653 by 7 and giving an answer in just 6 seconds. The answer was 93.2857143. Thompson got the entire answer correct including the decimals.
“What are you a cyborg?” Bellarmine sophomore Eugene Cablo Jr. asked.
Cablo said, “Watching someone with that kind of talent is amazing, there are very few people in the world that can take large numbers and divide them by other large numbers and get an answer within seconds.”
Thompson said the talent came gradually, without any practice. He doesn’t use this talent very often he said. “I mostly use this when paying for a bill and have to add a tip. That is probably when I use this the most,” he said.
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