The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c20.s2.3
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c20.s2.3
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c20.s2.3
"The question arises: how did Baudhāyana or Āpastamba or whoever may have the merit of the first investigation, find this value? Certainly they were not able to extract the square root of 2 to six places of decimals; if they have been able to do so, they would have arrived at still greater degree of accuracy. I suppose that they arrived at their result by the following method which account for the exact degree of accuracy they reached.