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# The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c11.4

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c11.4

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### [c11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c11.4)

" (Construct a rectangle whose) breadth will be the measure (of a side of the given square) and length its double-producer (\*i.e.\*, diagonal). The diagonal of that rectangle is the treble-producer."∗1

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