The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.52
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c15.52
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c15.52
The number of rational rectangles employed in the *Śulba* for the purpose of the construction of altars is found to be few. It will be fewer still—five only—if we consider the independent ones, leaving out the multiples or sub-multiples of them. So it will be naturally asked were the early Hindus aware of other rational rectangles? Had they any general rule for finding any number of rational rectangles?