Indian Mathematics c11.3

c11.3

“There is a bamboo 10 feet high, the upper end of which being broken reaches to the ground 3 feet from the stem. What is the height of the break?” This occurs in every Indian work after the 6th century. The problem about two travellers meeting on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle occurs some ten centuries later in exactly the same form in Mahāvīra’s work.