Precocious child in book of record

Precocious child in book of record

JAKARTA (JP): She is only four-year-old, but she writes Roman
numerals up to 2,000, calculates the cotangent, cosine and sine
of a triangle and the roots of numbers of up to 225,000.

Because of her precocious ability, Mega Cristivana from
Surakarta, Central Java, was entered into the Indonesian Museum
of Records Thursday.

The toddler impressed a panel of judges, led by the museum's
director Jaya Suprana, who "tested" her in the Central Java
capital of Semarang.

According to Antara yesterday, Mega also displayed her
stunning spatial ability by denoting structures such as the
triangle, square and rhombus.

Also entered into the Indonesian book of records the same day
was four-year-old Sotya Satmaka Adira from Yogyakarta, Central
Java, whose paintings have been published in well-known
publications like Republika daily, and children's magazines Bobo
and Fantasi.

Antara quoted the museum's manager Paulus Pangka as saying
that with the listing of the two prodigies' names the number of
people in the record grew to 307. The museum was established on
Jan. 27, 1990.

A recent record-making toddler was three-year-old Agi Patrio
Soegiantoro from Semarang who knows the answers to more than 400
questions that often befuddle adults.

Agi can explain how a lunar eclipse occurs, and who invented
Molotov cocktails and missiles.

He also knew how Diana, Princess of Wales, died and the names
of some prominent presidents and heads of state. (09)