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======1990s====== *In the 1991 movie ''[[Little Man Tate]]'', Fred Tate in the audience blurts out the answer during a mental calculation contest. *In the 1997 Sci-Fi thriller ''[[Cube (1997 film)|Cube]]'', one of the prisoners, Kazan, appears to be mentally disabled, but is revealed later in the film to be an autistic savant who is able to calculate prime factors in his head. *In 1998 [[Darren Aronofsky]]'s film ''[[Pi (film)|Pi]]'', Maximillian Cohen is asked a few times by a young child with a calculator to do large multiplications and divisions in his head, which he promptly does, correctly. *In 1998 film ''[[Mercury Rising]]'', a 9-year-old [[autistic savant]] with [[child prodigy|prodigious]] math abilities cracks a [[Classified information#Top Secret (TS)|top secret]] government code.
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