Daniel Tammet
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Dominic Puricelli 8Â1 9/23/14English Daniel TammetDaniel Tammet is a very cool person. He was born with and unusual, but awesome trait. Heborn in London, England. He’s about 35 years of age. When he was was younger he really didn’tconnect with friends. He was an outside and got teased for that reason. Tammet is not disabled, orautistic. He just shows these traits as described in the essay.Daniel Tammet is a very smart man. He’s tall and thin. He also has light brown hair. He wearsthin glasses and dresses very casual, but modest.Tammet does insane math calculations in his head. He connects shapes and colors withnumbers. He can remember a number like 68, for example, and it looks like a huge black blob. Heactually recited the mathematical number Pi (3.141) from memory to 22,514 decimal places in 5hours, 9 minutes, without being wrong. It was amazing. He also connects his emotions to numbers. Hewent to an interview with a guy and this man changed, took, and swapped different numbers in thenumber Pi. They test his emotions to see if they really were connected to numbers. In his chart you
could see how upset he was. He can also learn a language in just a week, maybe even less. A televisionshow in Iceland interview viewed him and he only got a week to learn Icelandic for the show. Theytested him with alot to see how well he knew their native language.Daniel Tammet is a big risk taker. He took a risk of being humiliated in front of thousands ofIcelandic people and a lot of other viewers, he could have messed up and been laughed at, but thatdidn’t stop him. He also is a very humble and modest person. He never spoke badly about someone, he