I have not watched the video yet. Howeveer I have a comment. I would assume his abilities are strictly computational and memorization based. While he seems to be like a computer in these areas, he has difficulty with theories and higher critical thinking. This is why he has not joined the ranks of of Stephen Hawking etc. I mean just because he can do calculations to 100 decimal places does not mean that he can place them in theoretical equations also. His ability as a savant is memory based not critical.

Awsome doc.

His accent while speaking Icelandic was, as far as I can tell, very good (being Norwegian). Good documentary.

Paul you are so right,

why don't we just lock him in a lab with nothing but numbers in front of his head all day? He doesn't need food either, we'll feed him intraveinously; cut off his legs too, we don't want him getting any funny ideas.....

It has always amazed me that in our society,that a person like danial, (with a special gift) has to capitalize financially just because of his ability to do what he does. The fact that he donates his time to science is a reward bigger than any paycheck.

"what keeps him from becoming a world chess champion?"

probably his priority interest in the girl next door.

Sounds to good to be true. If this guys is so good with numbers and has superior intellectual capabilities to perform large mathematical computations very fast and inside his brain as well as memory which allows to learn a new language in just 7 days, what keeps him from becoming a world chess champion? He could have memorized a great deal of chess games from books and use his computational skills to win each game. Or what about analyzing stock market data? Even world of Mathematics is swarm with open unproven number problems. There are a lot different real world scenarios where he could have really demonstrated his unique abilities, but for some reason he is not taking the advantage of any of them.... I know I would have.

C5, great job!

This is a rather common ability among autistics. I saw it several times at our monthly gathering of AUTASTICS in San Francisco. If you want to see it for yourself, contact Adam Pollack at 415-648-8390 and ask him about the next gathering

I love this documentary one...

haha

Yes.

does this guy have an I.Q. number?