The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c12.27
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c12.27
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c12.27
"If you wish to transform a square into a rectangle, (cut off from it a rectangular segment) by making a side as long as you wish (a side of the transformed rectangle to be). What remains in excess, should be added (to the former) as suitably as to fit.”¹