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# The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c19.s1.11

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c19.s1.11

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### [c19.s1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.datta-1932.c19.s1.11)

It should be noted that the above principle for obtaining the rational right triangles having a given leg has been followed expressly in later times in India by Mahāvīra (850) and in Europe by Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa (1202) and Vieta (\*c.\* 1580).

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