Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c5.s9.1

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c5.s9.1

Special credit is given to Āryabhaṭa I (c. 499 A.D.) for his rules for the extraction of the square and cube roots developed on the knowledge of decimal place value concept. His rule for square root extraction runs thus:

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