History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v2.c17.s18.24

v2.c17.s18.24

“Any optional number is the side; the square of that divided and then diminished by an optional number and halved is the upright; that added with the previous divisor is the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. For, so it has been explained by the learned in the matter of the rules of geometry.”¹