The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c7.41
The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c7.41
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This formula is not found in any known treatise on Hindu mathematics and we further know that from the time of Śrīdhara (*c.* 750), the Hindu mathematicians used a more approximate formula for the calculation of the area of the segment of a circle. Does it then follow that Karavindasvāmī lived in an age before the time of the discovery of that formula, that is, before 750 A.D.? It may be noted that the other formulæ in connexion with the mensuration of the segment of a circle have been stated as correctly as we find in the works of Brahmagupta (628) and other early Hindu mathematicians.