Editing Mental calculation (section)

===Television===
*In the [[USA Network]] legal drama ''[[Suits (U.S. TV series)|Suits]]'', the main character, Mike Ross, is asked to multiply considerably large numbers in his head to impress two girls, and subsequently does so.
*In the Fox television show ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', [[Malcolm Wilkerson]] displays astounding feats of automatic mental calculation, which causes him to fear his family will see him as a "freak", and causes his brother to ask, "Is Malcolm a robot?".
*In the 1990s NBC TV sitcom ''[[NewsRadio]]'', reporter/producer Lisa Miller can mentally calculate products, quotients, and square roots effortlessly and almost instantly, on demand.
*In the 2007 sitcom ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', the main character, [[Sheldon Cooper]], calculates numbers and solutions in his head for his theoretical physics research.
*In the 2008 show ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', the main character, [[Walter White (Breaking Bad)|Walter White]], is shown to calculate most of the numbers to his deals, such as profit and production costs, purely within his head.
*In another Fox television show, ''[[Fringe (TV series)|Fringe]]'', in the third episode of the third season, Olivia and her fellow Fringe Division members encounter an individual with severe cognitive impairment who has been given experimental [[nootropics]] and as a result has become a mathematical genius. The individual is able to calculate hundreds of equations simultaneously, which he leverages to avoid being returned to his original state of cognitive impairment.
*In the 2014 TV series ''[[Scorpion (TV series)|Scorpion]]'', Sylvester Dodd, a gifted mathematician and statistician with an IQ of 175; he is described as a "human calculator".