The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c18.72
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c18.72
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c18.72
The solution of the quadratic equation in its simpler forms is required in connexion with the enlargement of altars followed in a different school. According to that school, we are informed,⁴ the altars with areas 1½, 2½,... 6½ square pusuṣas should be of the square form. So it will then be necessary to construct a square differing from another by a specified quantity. Now we find in the *Sulba*, the following general rule for the enlargement of a square: