Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c5.s8.1

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c5.s8.1

The eight fundamental operations of Indian arithmetic after the invention of the decimal place value system of numeration are : addition (*samkalita*), subtraction ( *vyavakalita* or *vyutkalita* ), multiplication (*guṇana*), division (*bhāgahāra*), square (*varga*), square-root ( *varga-mūla* ), cube ( *ghana* ), cube-root ( *ghana-mūla*).

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