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Mixing music, maths to enter record books

Mumbai: Music and mathematics may be poles apart but a 45-year-old man has made a mark in both — a Guinness world record for non-stop singing and a Limca record for memorising square roots.

And, Thomas Vijayan from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu accomplished both feats in a span of one year without formal training in either field.

He found a place in the Guinness Book of World Records after a 72-hour marathon singing session in Bangalore in February last year.

A few months later, he made it to the Limca Book of Records for “reproducing from memory, all perfect squares of numbers between one and ten lakh” in the presence of IIT professors from Chennai.

Vijayan, who has a bachelor’s degree in Theology from an institute in Bhopal, said, “It was my inner inspiration to do something great and I’ve worked hard for it.” — PTI

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