History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v1.c8.s14.27

v1.c8.s14.27

**Problems on Mixture.** The Hindu works on *pâtîgaṇita* contain a chapter relating to problems on mixture (*miśraka-vyavahâra*). Miscellaneous problems on interest, problems on allegation, and various other types of problems, in which quantities are to be separated from their mixture, form the subject matter of *miśraka-vyavahâra*. A chapter "on mixture" (*De' mescolo*) is found in early Italian works on arithmetic, evidently under Hindu influence.²