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* Kazan - the autistic savant in the movie ''[[Cube]].''

** Also Wynn from the prequel ''Cube Zero''. {{spoiler|Depending on how you interpret the ending, the two may be the same person.}}

* Ben Campbell from the movie ''[[21]]'', but that's to be expected when he counts cards as a part time job.

* Ben Campbell from the movie ''[[21 (2008 film)|21]]'', but that's to be expected when he counts cards as a part time job.

** His [[Establishing Character Moment]] is him verbally tallying up a complicated order for a customer at a clothing store, including knocking off part of the price by applying his own employee discount towards the order, all without aid of a pen and paper or calculator. In the trailer, [[Fun with Subtitles|the math is written out on screen for the benefit of the audience]], though that bit was left out in the movie itself.

* [[Nash Equilibrium|John Nash]] [[Truth in Television|of both]] [[Real Life]] [[Based on a True Story|and]] ''[[A Beautiful Mind]]''. Manipulates glasses of water to alter the optic lines refracting through them to match a tie on the other side. Solves complex cryptograms based on the Sierpinski Gasket in his head. Revolutionizes all economic theory since Adam Smith. [[Room Full of Crazy|Crazy as a loon.]]

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* Andrew Jackson "Slipstick" Libby from [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''Future History'' series. In his introductory short story ''Misfit'', he replaces a spaceship navigation computer by performing all spatial calculations needed to navigate the ship in real time ''in his head''.

** And his mathematical genius comes to light when he warns of a critical calculation error made in setting a small nuclear charge based on what he's learned about laying the charges just by watching the officer making the calculations. (For the younger generation who'ven ever seen one, a "slipstick" is a nickname for a sliderule, a type of analog calculation aid common before hand-held calculators got good enough to do things like logarithms.)

* Also form Heinlein, Deety Carter from [[The Number of the Beast]] is as fast a calculator as Slipstick Libby. She also has a photographic memory and an incredibly precise circadian rhythm—i.e., a clock in her head. She's a slight subversion, though, in that she says that her lightning calculator ability is pointless with computers around (except that she can see a glitch in a program much more easily than most people).

* Romeo "Mo'Steel" Gonzalez from ''[[Remnants]]'', able to tell how many years and days he had been in stasis with just a glance at a counter showing how many minutes had passed. It totaled "five-hundred years, twelve days, and some spare change."

* Meg Murry, from ''[[A Wrinkle in Time]]'' and other books by [[Madeleine L'Engle]].

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* Professor Charlie Eppes from ''[[Numb3rs]]'', who [[Interdisciplinary Sleuth|uses his skills to solve homicides]].

* On ''[[Friends]]'' Chandler is irked whenever people concede that "numbers" is about all he has going for him. "Math? You're giving me math?"

* On ''[[Star Trek: ~~Deep Space Nine|Star Trek~~ Deep Space Nine]]'' {{spoiler|Dr Bashir}} starts displaying this characteristic after it's revealed that {{spoiler|he's genetically engineered and therefore has (among other benefits) a superior brain}}.

* On ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' {{spoiler|Dr Bashir}} starts displaying this characteristic after it's revealed that {{spoiler|he's genetically engineered and therefore has (among other benefits) a superior brain}}.

{{quote|'''O'Brien:''' "The core matrix is fried. We don't have warp drive."

'''Garak:''' "Forgive my ignorance, but if we don't have warp drive, how long is it going to take us to reach the closest Federation starbase?"

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* Matt, Shirley's [[Love Interest]] in ''[[The Adventures of Shirley Holmes]]''. He even goes to a school for genius kids, and helps [[Everybody Hates Mathematics|Bo]] with the answers in a math-based Game Show so he'll be able to get in as well.

{{quote|'''Bo:''' Some geniuses! They can't even count.

'''Matt:''' They're [[Mouthful of Pi|calculating pi]].

'''Bo:''' Oh. }}

* Fred Burkle from ''[[Angel]]'' is a math genius, and often uses the skill to help the team. Her math skill is so great that, in one episode, a group of demons attempts to cut off her head and steal her brain after she solves a puzzle for them.

* Adam Savage of the [[~~Myth Busters~~]] has been shown occasionally counting how many frames of high-speed camera footage an object takes to cross a given distance (typically a foot), then doing a series of rapid-fire mental calculations in order to find out its speed in miles per hour.

* Adam Savage of the [[MythBusters]] has been shown occasionally counting how many frames of high-speed camera footage an object takes to cross a given distance (typically a foot), then doing a series of rapid-fire mental calculations in order to find out its speed in miles per hour.

* Olivia Dunham on ''[[Fringe]]'' is shown to have an eidetic memory for numbers and patterns, but it apparently doesn't grant her any greater ability to perform calculations.

* In ''[[Spartacus: Blood and Sand]]'', the gladiator Ashur uses this talent to gamble, and when he becomes crippled, his master allows him to be his accountant.