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Ancient Indian square roots: an exercise in forensic Paleo-mathematics

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posted on 2025-05-09, 07:55 authored by David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein
This article examines the computation of square roots in ancient India in the context of the discovery of positional decimal arithmetic

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Journal title

American Mathematical Monthly

Volume

119

Issue

8

Pagination

646-657

Publisher

Mathematical Association of America (MAA)

Language

  • en, English

College/Research Centre

Faculty of Science and Information Technology

School

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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    square rootspositional arithmeticdecimal notationIndiaBrahmi numerals

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