The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c16.17
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c16.17
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c16.17
The area of the transformed circle, employing the value π = 3·14159, will be 4·068987 × a² whereas the area of the given square is 4a². Hence the former result is too large. On the degree of equivalence of the area of the given square and of the circle into which it is transformed by the above rule, there is a noteworthy observation of Āpastamba. He remarks,