The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c20.s5.13
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c20.s5.13
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c20.s5.13
Now this formula will not be available for finding the approximate values of those surds in which r is not small compared with a². So Rodet ² holds that a different process of approximation to the value of a surd was also known to the authors of the *Sulba*. It will lead to the formula, says he,