The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c11.42
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c11.42
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The whole process will, of course, be much simplified if n be a square number, equal to p², say. For in that case we shall have simply to divide a side of the given square into p equal parts. The square having one of these parts as a side will be equal to nth part of the given square. Kātyāyana furnishes us with some instances of this kind: