Egyptian boy wins World Mental Arithmetic Championship

A complex maths problem could take most of us a long time to solve with lots of scribbling, but for 13-year-old Abdel Rahman Hussein, it takes a second or two .. three at most!

Abdel Rahman has his eyes on a career in computing or programming.
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Abdel Rahman has his eyes on a career in computing or programming.

The winner of the World Mental Arithmetic Championship is a 13-year-old boy from Cairo.

Abdel Rahman Hussein beat 300,000 other children from 70 countries, after he managed to solve 230 complex arithmetic problems in just eight minutes.

Back in his home country Egypt and across the Arab world, he's been hailed a hero and the world's most clever kid.

TRT World's Simon McGregor-Wood reports.

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